Lyrics
The letting agent from CJ Hole called back
About the top-floor flat on Gloucester Road
The air feels damp, the November kind
I tell myself it's just a game, a code
[Chorus]
Just practicing the quiet
(ooh, ah)
Getting the lines right
[Verse 2]
You'd hate the colour of the bathroom grout
He said, "It won't be long, just trust me now"
I practice turning one key in the lock
The bitter smell of paint and rising doubt
[Chorus]
Just practicing the quiet
(ooh, ah)
Getting the lines right
[Bridge]
Measure the walls for just your side of things
The high, faint mark a memory leaves behind—the salt line stings
[Outro]
One kettle only
Boiling
About Isla Umbra
Raised between the granite coast of Cornwall and the shores of the Seychelles, Isla Umbra’s music is born from a life of dualities. She writes her smoky, atmospheric songs in a Bristol flat while her partner, a marine biologist named Leo, is away on research trips studying the very oceans that she uses as her primary metaphor. These are late-night lullabies about love, distance, and the quiet…
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