Lyrics
It's quarter past three, and the screen of this cracked phone feels cold.
I'm in the contact list, thumb hovering on the name I saved as 'Home'.
Sorry, this is… weird. I know this number's dead.
Just wanted a place to put the words caught in my head.
[Chorus]
It's just the pressure of a thumb on glass
To make five years of bedrock pass into dust.
Just the pressure of a thumb on glass.
[Verse 2]
I scrolled past the photo from that August trip to Crewe.
You sent a picture of the mizzle on the window, nothing new.
And that's the last layer of sediment, I suppose.
Beneath it, your message from a Tuesday: "Get some chalk dust on your clothes?"
[Chorus]
It's just the pressure of a thumb on glass
To make five years of bedrock pass into dust.
Just the pressure of a thumb on glass.
[Bridge]
Sorry, the boiler's just kicked in... I'm rambling. It's just strange.
Watching a name I wrote a thousand times just... rearrange into nothing.
[Outro]
Thumb on the glass.
It's done.
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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