Lyrics
The UKE logo is faded on your second-best mug.
Thursday, half-past nine, the whole kitchen is humid.
The window sweats a map of the Elbe in the dark
And I'm trying to build a memory from a faulty plan.
[Chorus]
It’s the ghost of salt on the tip of my tongue,
A recipe that you can’t write down.
I'm making a home you can leave when you're done,
An afterimage in steam for you now.
[Verse 2]
My hands don't move the way hers did, stained with tamarind.
“Just a feeling,” she’d say, “not a list you can follow.”
The countertops are sticky, the cold's seeping in,
And I wonder if you’ll even taste the difference.
[Chorus]
It’s the ghost of salt on the tip of my tongue,
A recipe that you can’t write down.
I'm making a home you can leave when you're done,
An afterimage in steam for you now.
[Bridge]
The gantry cranes are sleeping out over the water.
Your train was due an hour ago, but the tracks are slow.
[Outro]
An afterimage in steam.
For you.
About Søren Strand
Søren Strand was raised in the port district of Hamburg-Altona by his single mother, a Filipina nurse who worked double shifts. He learned to play on his grandmother's old upright piano, writing melodies to match the rhythm of the cargo cranes outside his window. His music, a unique blend of tropical-pop and North Sea melancholy, is shaped by a decade-long, on-and-off love with a maritime…
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