Lyrics
He orders a pint at The Gowlett, last Tuesday at eight.
The new wood smells of varnish, not spilt beer on the slate.
Jamal's already there, thumb scrolling through a screen,
in the same corner booth where their whole lives had been.
The silence between them, a cantilevered weight.
[Chorus]
They trace the desire lines back to the start,
a zoning variance for a heavy heart.
A temporary permit to feel like they did then,
before the dust settled and the new maps began.
[Verse 2]
The Overground rattles the glass in its frame.
He starts to say something, forgets his own name.
'Remember the static from the A202?'
Jamal just shrugs, 'That noise ain't nothing new.'
Each word is a brick in a wall built on shame.
[Chorus]
They trace the desire lines back to the start,
a zoning variance for a heavy heart.
A temporary permit to feel like they did then,
before the dust settled and the new maps began.
[Bridge]
One built a façade to keep the city out.
One drew the blueprints for what the city's about.
[Outro]
A heavy heart… a variance.
About Silas Croft
A former architecture student from South London, Silas Croft now builds songs instead of buildings. He uses the worn-down 1978 Fender P-Bass his father gave him to map the emotional blueprints of his life, writing about the ghosts of relationships and the changing face of his city. He still works a day job as a draftsman to pay his rent and talks to 'Cecil,' the overgrown houseplant his…
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