Lyrics
The Huntley & Palmers tin on the mantelpiece, all scratched.
The lid gives a soft metallic sigh, the catch is badly matched.
Inside, a ticket stub to St Ives, dated late July.
The air smells of old paper and the chalk-dry Peak District sky.
[Chorus]
It’s just some paper and some rust.
Just the slow-settled dust.
Yeah, it’s just the strata of us.
[Verse 2]
A photo, dog-eared, from the Hope Cement Works do.
The one where I’m not looking at the camera, I’m looking at you.
You said, “My god, your hands are cold,” and pressed them to your cheek.
I haven’t felt that kind of warm in fifty-seven weeks.
[Chorus]
It’s just some paper and some rust.
Just the slow-settled dust.
Yeah, it’s just the strata of us.
[Bridge]
And I should probably throw it out, start a fire in the ginnel.
But every time I lift the lid, the roaring in me stills.
It’s fine. I’m fine. It’s just a box. It’s only history.
[Outro]
(A cappella)
Just… paper and some rust.
About Nick Drayton
Nick Drayton grew up in the shadow of a limestone quarry in Buxton, Derbyshire. He dropped out of a university literature degree after a year and a half, finding more truth in the worn-out faces at the cafe where he now works as a barista. His hushed, intricate songs, written on a beat-up acoustic guitar, are drawn from the slow, painful end of a five-year relationship and the quiet lives he…
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