Lyrics
The cutlery drawer with the wonky handle
rattles when the tram shakes the Pye Bank flats.
A sound like a promise, a lit candle
placed where all the good knives are kept at.
[Chorus]
And that's a kind of church, the way you move.
A holy rattle, a reason to prove.
[Verse 2]
Your hands, they know the order of the spoons,
a calloused map of a hundred Tuesday nights.
Worn to the bone beneath unforgiving moons,
sorting the darks out from the kitchen lights.
[Chorus]
And that's a kind of church, the way you move.
A holy rattle, a reason to prove.
[Bridge]
"Just leave it there," a voice says from the hall.
A photograph curls from the damp on the wall.
A tiny fracture runs right through it all.
[Outro]
The cutlery drawer with the wonky handle.
The sound of a promise. A lit candle.
About Keir Bitumen
Keir Bitumen was raised in Sheffield by a single mother who worked three jobs. He saw her fall asleep at the kitchen table from exhaustion and swore he'd make enough so she could stop; he hasn't yet, and the guilt fuels every note. After leaving school at sixteen to work as a scaffolder, he started writing songs on a battered Telecaster about the grit and grace of post-industrial life. These…
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