Lyrics
The rust on the Transporter Bridge at dawn,
another year etched on the pane.
November, and the estuary's gone silver.
I'm trying to write you out of the rain.
[Chorus]
Does the dye bleed out a little every year?
Does forgetting your laugh make you disappear?
[Verse 2]
The needle on that old calypso crackles low,
a ghost of steel pan in the hum.
"Just feel the warp," you'd say, "and let the pattern grow."
My hands are going numb.
[Chorus]
Does the dye bleed out a little every year?
Does forgetting your laugh make you disappear?
[Bridge]
And I am mad at you for all this space,
this threadbare blanket of a name.
That distant buoy bell marking the place...
[Outro]
...where I unspool you, all the same.
About Alun Croft
Alun Croft was raised between the old sea-docks of Cardiff and the vibrant undertow of Bristol. His music is a map of that geography, blending the warm hum of his vintage Rhodes piano with samples from his father's Trinidadian calypso records and forgotten Welsh folk LPs. For the last ten years, he has built a life and a sound with his partner Maya, a ceramicist. His songs are born from the quiet…
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