Lyrics
The recipe for Callaloo, on airmail stained with ghee,
His handwriting a broken loom I can't quite read.
The thyme wilts on the windowsill in this specific grey,
A texture from a life I never lived, from miles away.
[Chorus]
A ghost of salt on my tongue,
A rhythm just begun.
The warp is right, the weft is wrong,
A half-remembered song.
[Verse 2]
I rang my aunt in Port of Spain, the line was full of rain.
She laughed and said, "'You boys just guess, you feel the sun again.'"
I watched the water bead and trace the anoxia on the glass,
A quiet, scientific study of a thing that couldn't last.
[Chorus]
A ghost of salt on my tongue,
A rhythm just begun.
The warp is right, the weft is wrong,
A half-remembered song.
[Bridge]
It was never about the taste.
Just the beautiful shape of the waste.
[Outro]
The sound of a bicycle bell, down on the estuary road.
About Alun Croft
Alun Croft was raised between the old sea-docks of Cardiff and the vibrant undertow of Bristol. His music is a map of that geography, blending the warm hum of his vintage Rhodes piano with samples from his father's Trinidadian calypso records and forgotten Welsh folk LPs. For the last ten years, he has built a life and a sound with his partner Maya, a ceramicist. His songs are born from the quiet…
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