Lyrics
The placard's cheap spruce is splintering my palm,
Out on Pinstone Street, the November calm
Is a story you'd tell about pressure and stone.
I'm stood at the back here, feeling alone, Grandad.
[Chorus]
And I'm planting a tree I'll never sit under,
Just hoping you'd call that a job well done.
Or am I just chasing the roll of your thunder?
I don't know. The afternoon's losing the sun.
[Verse 2]
I remember the fine chalk dust settled in your skin,
Coming home from the quarry, letting the evening in.
You said, "Watch the strata, lad, that's where the cracks begin."
Your teacup's still sat on the shelf, chipped at the rim.
[Chorus]
And I'm planting a tree I'll never sit under,
Just hoping you'd call that a job well done.
Or am I just chasing the roll of your thunder?
I don't know. The afternoon's losing the sun.
[Bridge]
This city's a cross-section, scored and bled,
And I'm holding a sign for the words you left unsaid.
[Outro]
The march is all over. It's just me and the sparrows now.
I think I did okay. I hope so, anyhow.
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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