Lyrics
Ewan's thumb traces the fault in a slate slab,
The workshop air is cold, it's Tuesday half-past three.
He holds it to the single bulb that hangs above his bench,
Like a piece of broken promise meant for only me to see.
[Chorus]
You don't fight the pressure, son, you let the layers show.
The kindness of the scars is the only truth you'll know.
[Verse 2]
Chalk dust ghosts the lines across his calloused hand,
Each knuckle a low hill, eroded, worn, and mapped.
And I think about the hairline cracks across our five-year plan,
The quiet little fissures where the whole foundation snapped.
[Chorus]
You don't fight the pressure, son, you let the layers show.
The kindness of the scars is the only truth you'll know.
[Bridge]
I asked him how he knows it's finished, how he calls it done.
He said, "It's when the stone stops telling you the man it wants to be."
[Outro]
Yeah, the kindness of the scars,
Is all that's left to see.
About Nick Drayton
Nick Drayton grew up in the shadow of a limestone quarry in Buxton, Derbyshire. He dropped out of a university literature degree after a year and a half, finding more truth in the worn-out faces at the cafe where he now works as a barista. His hushed, intricate songs, written on a beat-up acoustic guitar, are drawn from the slow, painful end of a five-year relationship and the quiet lives he…
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