Lyrics
The L train rattles the windowpane, it's 2 AM in Bushwick.
You trace the fray on this old settee, a pattern of all we're carrying.
You say, "If we cut this final thread, just let the colors bleed..."
"...Is it a kindness, or a killing of the boy who planted that first seed?"
[Chorus]
Is this a gentle erasure?
A mercy for the ghosts we'll be?
Or just a beautiful failure
To hold on to you, to hold on to me?
[Verse 2]
I remember the heat of the sidewalk in July, on Wyckoff Avenue.
You smelled like ginger beer and sweat, and every stitch was new.
But that boy is a photograph, his memory stored in glass.
You ask, "Do we owe him a haunting? Is that too much to ask?"
[Chorus]
Is this a gentle erasure?
A mercy for the ghosts we'll be?
Or just a beautiful failure
To hold on to you, to hold on to me?
[Bridge]
This whole city feels like a tapestry we wove and can't un-see.
If I forget your hands, do I forget the shape they made of me?
[Outro]
A gentle erasure...
(beat)
Just erase me softly.
About Whitney Hughes
Born in London to Ghanaian parents who ran a textile shop in Peckham, Whitney Hughes was supposed to be a barrister. Instead, after dropping out of law school, she found her voice on a dusty community centre piano, writing powerhouse ballads about the worlds she translates between. Her songs weave the raw emotion of 90s R&B with the intricate patterns of her heritage. Her prized possession is a…
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