Lyrics
The bat-pin on the Shimpo wheel, cold under my thumb in the garage.
Four pounds of stoneware, fighting the cone-up, a slow-motion sabotage.
That first November, the slurry was the only thing that felt like it was holding my hands.
It’s just mud and water, but it collapses with its own demands.
[Chorus]
But you don't get to see the firing.
The vitrified glaze, the shape I'm wiring.
You don't get to see the firing.
[Verse 2]
“You think too much,” you said once, back on the Belle Isle bridge.
“Just let the structure happen.” But there was always a hairline ridge.
Clay on the wall in a pattern that matched the sky over Zug Island.
Then one Tuesday, four AM, the wall rose clean under my guidance.
[Chorus]
And you don't get to see the firing.
The vitrified glaze, the shape I'm wiring.
You don't get to see the firing.
[Bridge]
This isn't a vessel, not for holding a thing.
It's a diagram of tension, a calculated, quiet offering.
[Outro]
You don't get to see.
The firing.
About Aaliya Holm
Aaliya Holm was raised in a glass-walled apartment in Detroit's iconic Lafayette Park, a modernist experiment in urban living. A former architecture student, she dropped out to build her own kind of structures: minimalist, futuristic R&B songs that map the schematics of intimacy and loneliness. She still works a day job for the city, digitizing the very blueprints that have come to define her…
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