Lyrics
Ababa's old rotary, Bakelite and cord,
I trace your number, a prayer I can't afford.
The berbere in the air is faint, a dusty ghost I keep,
Past 2 AM, the whole block is asleep.
This is the ritual, the long way to your name.
[Chorus]
(Lead) Just static on the receiver
(Backing) (Don't you call, don't you call now)
(Lead) Trying to prove I'm not a leaver
(Backing) (Nothing to say, nothing to say how)
[Verse 2]
"Still in that house?" is how you'll start the show,
Like these floorboards aren't the only roots I know.
You pruned your branches, left for sunnier streets,
We're just two weeds from the same cracked concrete.
That plastic click sounds like rewinding the blame.
[Chorus]
(Lead) Just static on the receiver
(Backing) (Don't you call, don't you call now)
(Lead) Trying to prove I'm not a leaver
(Backing) (Nothing to say, nothing to say how)
[Bridge]
(Vocals become completely dry, close-mic'd, no reverb)
I miss you. Fikir.
Is it still there under all the years of quiet?
[Outro]
(Lead) Just static on the receiver...
(Backing, fading out) (Don't you call... don't you call...)
About Idris Veil
Idris Veil still lives in the West Oakland house his Ethiopian grandmother, Ababa, raised him in. He pays the bills working at a coffee shop just to be near the familiar smell of her home country. Every song is written late at night on a Fender Jaguar in his childhood bedroom, trying to fill a silence that’s become deafening. This is the sound of memory, lo-fi R&B filtered through Bay Area fog…
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