Lyrics
Scuff on a boot from the Penzance train
Ticket says G-4, then it says it again
Tuesday, three thirty, the mizzle begins
The room smells of damp coats. The salt line.
[Verse 2]
He asks "Country of Origin?" and taps with his pen
My tongue tastes of metal, not cinnamon then
Thinking of frangipani on a boat-builder's deck
High-water mark on the back of my neck. The salt line.
[Bridge]
(percussion and whispered vocal only)
From this grey estuary...
to that clear bay...
How many miles...
[Outro]
Your thumbprint, a smudge.
Another small island.
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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