Lyrics
The faucet drips a metronome on the porcelain at 2:19.
The building's iron lung takes a breath in the pipes between.
Steam writes a temporary ghost on the mirror's silver plane,
Rehearsing the silence that follows the shape of your name.
[Chorus]
(Vocalist 2)
Let the water run warm, baby.
Let the whole story come.
[Verse 2]
I got a language of numbers, a calculus under the skin,
A quiet negotiation to let the morning in.
But the sterile blue cap on the vial ain't the truth I need to show,
It's the tremor in my fingers when I have to let you know.
[Chorus]
(Vocalist 2)
Let the water run warm, baby.
Let the whole story come.
[Bridge]
(Vocalist 1)
Last Tuesday on the porch steps, "Just tell me," you said, soft.
(Vocalist 1 & 2)
"The whole of it, Curtis. The cost."
[Outro]
(Vocalist 1, ad-lib)
The pressure drops now...
(Vocalist 2, background vocal)
Let it run, let it run...
About Curtis Mansfield
Curtis Mansfield was born in Bronzeville, Chicago, and never left. His plans to play basketball were permanently sidelined by a Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis at sixteen, which led him to his grandfather’s forgotten Fender guitar. Now, from the same apartment window he grew up looking out of, he writes socially-conscious soul music that chronicles the secret negotiations of the body and the sacred…
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