Lyrics
The Rightmove link’s for a top-floor flat by the ring road near Heeley.
Got a single-glazed window, you can feel the draft through the screen, really.
The listing says "potential", which is agent-speak for "knackered".
I've already picked the curtains, grey to match the sky, pre-shattered.
[Chorus]
This is my contingency plan, my load-bearing wall.
My case-hardened heart in a holding pattern, waiting for the fall.
[Verse 2]
There's a stain on the carpet looks like a map of the Don Valley.
I'd put Dad's old armchair there, angled just slightly.
I could work the late shift, no one to hear the key in the latch.
Just the hiss of the night bus and a poorly-mended scratch.
[Bridge]
You said "Don't overthink it, love" last Tuesday by the bins.
And I saw the stress fracture, I know where the failure begins.
My hands know the breaking point of steel that’s been bent.
[Outro]
Just a top-floor flat.
By the ring road.
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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