Lyrics
The Bakewell tart from Sunday's sat uneaten on the side,
Three forty-seven shows in green on the oven clock.
Your knuckles are pale chalk around a mug of cold Earl Grey,
A fault line runs right through this block.
[Chorus]
Did we build this on bedrock or just shifting shale?
When the water gets inside, does the whole foundation fail?
[Verse 2]
“I saw you watch the masons,” you say, soft as falling dust,
“Setting limestone kerbs along Division Street.”
Did you think of how we started, that first walk up in the clough,
The easy way we fit, the lack of deceit?
[Chorus]
Did we build this on bedrock or just shifting shale?
When the water gets inside, does the whole foundation fail?
[Bridge]
The cold from the lino bites the soles of my bare feet.
I still love the map of veins across your hand.
[Chorus]
Did we build this on bedrock or just shifting shale?
When the water gets inside, does the whole foundation fail?
[Outro]
Shifting shale...
Shifting shale...
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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