Lyrics
The ink on your Victoria sponge card is fading to a ghost,
The corner's soft with butter from nineteen-eighty-three.
I'm tracing the copperplate curves I still remember most,
Trying to weigh the air between the man I am and who I'd be.
[Chorus]
And I follow the fold, I measure the rise,
But it's never the same weight under my eyes.
It's a different kind of empty, a different kind of ache,
For a goodness I can't touch and a recipe I can't remake.
[Verse 2]
The kitchen's cold, it's quarter to one on a Sheffield Wednesday,
And the chalk of the McDougalls flour is dusting my hands grey.
You'd tap the tin, say, "Listen close, it's talking when it's done."
But the silence in this house is the only prize I've won.
[Chorus]
And I follow the fold, I measure the rise,
But it's never the same weight under my eyes.
It's a different kind of empty, a different kind of ache,
For a goodness I can't touch and a recipe I can't remake.
[Bridge]
This memory's a stratum, a thin and brittle seam,
And I'm digging with my bare hands through the rubble of a dream.
[Outro]
It's set on the wire rack now.
Still smells a bit like home.
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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