Lyrics
The Argos dehumidifier hums a low G-sharp.
Half-past two, rain sheets the window of the Pepys Estate.
I trace the condensation, a temporary chart.
You're watching the news with the sound down, a silent debate.
[Chorus]
I said, "You're the only deep water that ever felt safe."
Then the air got tight, and I needed to escape.
"Forget I said that. It's the river talking."
[Verse 2]
My pulse is an undertow pulling at the sand.
I watch your reflection in the black glass, a steady outline.
Waiting for the tide to turn, to make some new land.
You just uncurl your fingers from the lip of the wine.
[Chorus]
I said, "You're the only deep water that ever felt safe."
Then the air got tight, and I needed to escape.
"Forget I said that. It's the river talking."
[Bridge]
And you turned to me slow, put your thumb on my wrist.
"You never have to unsay it," you said through the mist.
[Outro]
The river talking...
Felt safe...
About Folasade Lin
A former architecture student from Deptford, Folasade Lin dropped out of university to build songs instead of buildings. She writes and plays on the same alto saxophone her Nigerian father left behind when she was a child, crafting a sound steeped in the grey, riverside quiet of South London. Her music is for late nights, for lovers of Sade, and for anyone who understands that the strongest…
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