Lyrics
I'm the varnish worn thin on the corner snug table
At The Grapes, Tuesday, half past nine.
I've held the weight of a thousand bad gambles,
And tonight I am holding yours and mine.
Your knuckles are white as Buxton chalk on my oak.
[Chorus]
And you won, you won the whole damn war (the quietest war)
But the silence is your new high score (what were you fighting for?)
You're the king of a kingdom of one sticky chair.
The victory rings in the stale-ale air.
[Verse 2]
I felt the tremor when she pushed her glass back,
A little ripple across my whole grain.
"'It's the staying that breaks you,' she said, off the track,"
And walked out in the Sheffield rain.
I still feel the damp from her coat on my edge.
[Chorus]
And you won, you won the whole damn war (the quietest war)
But the silence is your new high score (what were you fighting for?)
You're the king of a kingdom of one sticky chair.
The victory rings in the stale-ale air.
[Bridge]
The barman calls time, but you don't even lift
Your head from the strata of names carved in me.
Just a slow, steady, continental drift
Away from the man you had wanted to be.
[Outro]
Yeah, a hollow crown.
On the last man in town.
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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