Lyrics
My mother's Shimpaku juniper on my father's drafting board.
For three Julys I've mapped its decline, pulled the wrong cord.
The cicada hum is a solid wall I feel against my skin.
You set the groceries on the counter, and I let all that quiet in.
[Chorus]
You don't even know it
But this whole house is shifting its axis around you
A new gravity
[Verse 2]
I trace the copper wire, trying to find the future line.
Pretending her botanist's patience is somehow also mine.
"The pressure should be gentle," you whisper from the chair.
And for the first time all summer, the static isn't there.
[Chorus]
You don't even know it
But this whole house is shifting its axis around you
A new gravity
[Bridge]
The silence in this bungalow used to have a shape.
Now it just has the sound of the screen door when you escape.
[Outro]
The apical bud is reaching.
And I think I'm breathing.
About Cosmo Ali
Cosmo Ali makes music in the Virginia Beach bungalow his parents left behind. The son of a Navy cartographer and a botanist, his songs are maps of memory, charting a course through grief with the tools of his hometown heroes: playful synths and off-kilter funk. He writes every lyric in his late father's drafting chair, surrounded by his mother's collection of bonsai trees. This is the sound of an…
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