Lyrics
The TDK C90 in Dad's old Cortina is stuck on side B.
Quarter to midnight, coasting the A61, it's just the tape and me.
The mechanism gives a heavy clunk I know by feel,
My thumb, still smudged with black, finds the button, cold as steel.
It's just a thing I do.
[Chorus]
The double-click forward past track three.
Said "I'll always keep you" under my breath, you see.
Then bit my tongue 'til there was nothing left,
Just the hiss of the tape and the smell of theft.
[Verse 2]
You said, "Side B's for the long drive home, love," that October.
The ink on the label's a blue-black blur, I'm barely sober.
The gears whine a bit in third, a familiar complaint,
And I turn up The Specials to drown out the thought of a saint
Who looks a little bit like you.
[Chorus]
The double-click forward past track three.
Said "I'll always keep you" under my breath, you see.
Then bit my tongue 'til there was nothing left,
Just the hiss of the tape and the smell of theft.
[Bridge]
It's not a memory, it's a hairline fault.
A tiny fissure that the cold's brought to a halt.
The kind of break you can't spot with the naked eye,
'Til you put on the pressure and it teaches you how to lie.
[Outro]
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About Amy Winefield
Amy Winefield learned to sing over the clang of Sheffield steel forges, but found her true voice in the silence of a sickroom. After putting music aside for two years to care for her dying father, a steelworker like his father before him, she returned with lyrics forged in grief and grit. She still works part-time as a welder, writing songs that treat heartbreak like metal fatigue and love like a…
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