Lyrics
The Henderson's bottle left a ring on the teak
That Tuesday afternoon, first week of the heat.
I watched the anvil dust dance in the sunbeams,
Painting the air with what almost-seems.
Your hand on the mug, the chip by the rim,
A map of a country I couldn't get in.
[Chorus]
I'm holding the quiet before the quiet came.
Just breathing the air before you forget my name.
[Verse 2]
The six o'clock pips from the wireless set,
A sound so familiar, you learn to forget.
"It's nowt," you said, reaching for your coat,
"Just a bit of a cough, a frog in me throat."
And your keys in the lock had a different sound,
Like a gear that's about to stop going 'round.
[Chorus]
I'm holding the quiet before the quiet came.
Just breathing the air before you forget my name.
[Bridge]
I can't tell you to stay, I'm just wood and plaster.
I just hold the moments, before and the after.
[Chorus]
(Key Change)
I'm holding the quiet before the quiet came!
Just breathing the air before you forget my name!
[Outro]
The dust just keeps dancing...
In the sunbeam.
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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