Lyrics
The spine on the '98 Thomas Guide is creased to page forty-seven.
Your finger traced a dead-end street in Highland Park like it was heaven.
The paper has the faint, dry smell of sun on a dashboard.
A cartography of everywhere we can't go anymore.
[Pre-Chorus]
And every faded freeway ramp's an easement to a memory.
The city sold the air rights to the sky above you and me.
[Chorus]
They rezoned your love.
An unbuildable plot.
A variance request the city forgot.
[Verse 2]
That July, the A/C broken, stuck on the Davidson Freeway.
You said, "We're a mixed-use block, a beautiful urban decay."
I still feel the heat off the vinyl, see the flicker of the check-engine light.
An infrastructure failure in the fading orange night.
[Pre-Chorus]
And every faded freeway ramp's an easement to a memory.
The city sold the air rights to the sky above you and me.
[Chorus]
They rezoned your love.
An unbuildable plot.
A variance request the city forgot.
[Bridge]
The paper feels thinner than a new property line.
A conditional use permit that was only yours and mine.
[Outro]
Unbuildable plot...
A variance they forgot...
About Aaliya Holm
Aaliya Holm was raised in a glass-walled apartment in Detroit's iconic Lafayette Park, a modernist experiment in urban living. A former architecture student, she dropped out to build her own kind of structures: minimalist, futuristic R&B songs that map the schematics of intimacy and loneliness. She still works a day job for the city, digitizing the very blueprints that have come to define her…
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