Lyrics
The 4am blue of a Rightmove listing
For a top-floor flat on Coronation Road.
I trace the floorplan with a tired thumb,
Imagine where your dad's old chair would go.
It's a quiet work, this practiced letting go.
[Chorus]
And I'm taking a ghost inventory,
It's the bravest, most boring story.
A single thread for a future seam,
The quiet hum of what might have been.
[Verse 2]
Last Tuesday, you said "These curtains have another winter in them yet,"
The scratch of the wool on my cheek, a scent I won't forget.
In this new place, the windows will be bare,
Just a thin grey sheet to hold the empty air.
[Chorus]
And I'm taking a ghost inventory,
It's the bravest, most boring story.
A single thread for a future seam,
The quiet hum of what might have been.
[Bridge]
This is the unspooling I always knew would come,
Taught to caulk a seam against the water's run.
But you can't darn a silence, can't mend what was unsaid.
[Outro]
(with countermelody: A single cup, a single key...)
And I'm taking a ghost inventory...
The page reloads. I start again.
About Cat Steven
Cat Steven was raised on the Isle of Wight, splitting his weeks between two homes after his parents' divorce: a boat-builder's cottage by the sea and a gardener's house inland. He learned to play on his father's old nylon-string guitar, writing songs to map the emotional distance between his two lives. Now based in Bristol, his music untangles the threads of a life spent in-between, searching for…
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