Lyrics
The Coral sign is bleeding on the wet Sheffield ginnel,
Tuesday's closing shift, the air tastes of metal.
I feel the week's pressure in a slow, tectonic ache,
Another hairline fracture for a wage they let me make.
[Chorus]
And they can own the hours, they can own the slate,
But this gritstone heart is not theirs to break.
No, this gritstone heart is not theirs to break.
[Verse 2]
Heard the manager say, "You're lucky to have this, son."
And I saw the strata of every man he's outrun.
Your letter's in my pocket, feels thin as a seam,
A folded-up map of some sedimentary dream.
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Chorus]
And they can own the hours, they can own the slate,
But this gritstone heart is not theirs to break.
No, this gritstone heart is not theirs to break.
[Outro]
Chalk dust on my hands, under a pale, cracking sky.
They haven't broken me. Not yet.
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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