Lyrics
The fire blanket from Dad's Zremb toolbox is shut
behind that kitchen cupboard door that's always stuck.
I map the exits in my head when you go make the tea,
a quick containment line between the sofa and me.
[Chorus]
And I practice the walk-out.
Learning the new floor plan where my heart will go.
Running a drill for the backdraft.
[Verse 2]
Last Tuesday, four AM, you woke and found me dressed.
Asked me, "Kofi, is that smoke?" a hand against my chest.
I said it's just the neighbour's bonfire, an October thing,
while listening for the sound of some far-off siren.
[Chorus]
And I practice the walk-out.
Learning the new floor plan where my heart will go.
Running a drill for the backdraft.
[Bridge]
But then you pull the duvet tight, a perfect seal.
And for a second this whole apartment feels real.
[Outro]
What do you save first?
What do you save...
About Holloway Static
Kofi Nowak was raised in a Holloway council flat between his Ghanaian mother's Twi phone calls and his Polish father's electrical blueprints. A former architectural technology student, he dropped out to apply the logic of structures to sound, building skeletal R&B songs about the signal loss of modern love. His music, made under the name Holloway Static, is the sound of being a ghost in your own…
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