Lyrics
You trace the hairline crack on the kettle from here to the Thames Barrier.
It’s been there since that Tuesday in November, a silent, patient carrier.
You tell yourself it's just a settling line, the way the porcelain cooled.
A foundation shifting on the marshland silence, a promise overruled.
[Chorus]
But you say it's not a fracture, just a loose thread count.
A different kind of tapestry you’re still figuring out.
It’s not a final silence, just a lower sound.
You tell yourself that.
[Verse 2]
One Earl Grey teacup on the drying rack.
The dog-eared copy of Bluets still sitting on the stack.
The spare key in the ceramic bowl by the door.
The quiet hum of the fridge, and nothing more.
[Chorus]
And you say it's not a fracture, just a loose thread count.
A different kind of tapestry you’re still figuring out.
It’s not a final silence, just a lower sound.
You tell yourself that.
[Bridge]
“'I’ll call you from the station,' you both said,” knowing the signal’s poor.
The warp is showing through the weft, an aperture in the door.
This is the mending now, the needle held against the light.
[Outro]
Just a loose thread count.
(Alto saxophone solo enters, mournful but resolved, carrying the song to a slow fade)
About Folasade Lin
A former architecture student from Deptford, Folasade Lin dropped out of university to build songs instead of buildings. She writes and plays on the same alto saxophone her Nigerian father left behind when she was a child, crafting a sound steeped in the grey, riverside quiet of South London. Her music is for late nights, for lovers of Sade, and for anyone who understands that the strongest…
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