Lyrics
The magnet from Skegness on their Baxi boiler door
Hasn't moved an inch since the summer of ninety-four.
We've watched them from the windows of the number 52 bus,
Swapping out the old parts for what's left of the two of them, for us.
[Chorus]
Component drift, the quiet change
When all the pieces rearrange.
Are they the same two that we once knew?
Or just a different shade of dial tone blue.
[Verse 2]
Heard her say “it's just a phase, love” down the Moor Market aisle,
Forcing the shape of a Saturday smile.
His hands don't smell of cutting fluid from the forge anymore,
Just the soft, pale soap he uses to lock his own front door.
[Bridge]
We keep the old photos like an engineer's design,
A blueprint of the original, drawn line by perfect line.
But if you change the engine, and then you change the frame,
Can you honestly call it by the same name?
[Outro]
The same name.
By the same name.
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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