Lyrics
(Sound of a phone ringing once, cuts to voicemail beep)
Hey, it's me. It's Karen. It's, what, quarter-past-two?
The lamp at Oba-san's glowed red, a hot spot on the thermal map of you.
I'm replaying the whole night, trying to triage the scene.
Every word was an ember I was keeping tamped down and clean.
Sorry, I'm rambling.
[Chorus]
This is the backdraft, the unspoken part
A smoke detector screaming in the dark
I held the line, but baby, what's the use?
When all I wanna do is light the fuse.
[Verse 2]
(Voicemail texture becomes clearer, street noise faintly underneath)
You asked, "So what's the protocol?" and I just laughed.
Felt the cold from the windowpane, a pre-flash on my back.
I wanted to say that my whole apartment's a kindling box
Just waiting for a careless word to come and pick the locks.
[Chorus]
This is the backdraft, the unspoken part
A smoke detector screaming in the dark
I held the line, but baby, what's the use?
When all I wanna do is light the fuse.
[Bridge]
Most of my life is saving things from the flame
Darning the scorch marks, whispering my own name
But with you, I just want to watch it all go bright
Just for a minute. Just for tonight.
[Outro]
Okay. Um. Call me back.
(Sound of a click as the call ends, synth chords swell and fade)
About Karen Wren
Karen Wren was raised in the quiet, rain-soaked suburbs of Portland, Oregon. After leaving the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in her third year, feeling disconnected from its rigid classicism, she returned home with a mountain of student debt and her grandmother's Japanese folk songbook. She writes her lush, melancholic piano ballads in the pre-dawn quiet of her small apartment before her…
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