Lyrics
Polishing the silver down at The Corinthia, Tuesday at five.
See a crack in the marble floor shaped like the Northern Line.
The air in here smells of lemon polish and being kept quiet.
Just counting the seconds 'til the Overground sighs.
[Pre-Chorus]
You send a text of a postcode I can't place.
Is this the bridge we're building or the space?
[Chorus]
This is a borrowed light, innit.
And for a minute, we're in it.
[Verse 2]
Remember Dad's house, the deep stillness in Sutton.
The spare key he hid under a chipped paving stone.
Said, "This is all yours, son, every last button."
Studying the gap between what you're given and what you own.
[Pre-Chorus]
You send a text of a postcode I can't place.
Is this the bridge we're building or the space?
[Chorus]
This is a borrowed light, innit.
And for a minute, we're in it.
[Bridge]
Heard a voice in the lift say, "It's only money, you'll make more."
Never knew a sentence could lock a door.
[Outro]
Just borrowed light.
Borrowed light.
About Field Kit
Field Kit (Leo Adebayo) learned to navigate London by the sound of its train lines, splitting his childhood between his mum's flat in Brixton and his dad's house in Sutton. A classically trained cellist, he abandoned formal training after discovering Burial on a late-night radio show, turning his instrument and a battered Zoom recorder into tools for mapping his city. His tracks are built from…
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