Lyrics
The Gleadless Valley tram, November 2018.
His hand on her back, a map of what you'd never seen.
Two stops from your new door, the windows wept with condensation.
I built a perfect silence from steel and good intentions.
[Chorus]
Some truths are demolition balls.
You just watch them swing and wait for the walls.
[Verse 2]
Saw you both a week on, laughing by the Moor Market.
My own calloused hands felt like tools I couldn't grip yet.
You asked if I was alright, said I looked 'right nithered'.
And the lie became a joist that held the whole damn thing together.
[Chorus]
Some truths are demolition balls.
You just watch them swing and wait for the walls.
[Bridge]
She texted me that night, "Don't say a word, Keir."
A hairline fracture starts. A slow subsidence through the years.
[Outro]
Now I see his ghost on every blue line home.
Still holding up the roof. Still leaving you alone.
About Keir Bitumen
Keir Bitumen was raised in Sheffield by a single mother who worked three jobs. He saw her fall asleep at the kitchen table from exhaustion and swore he'd make enough so she could stop; he hasn't yet, and the guilt fuels every note. After leaving school at sixteen to work as a scaffolder, he started writing songs on a battered Telecaster about the grit and grace of post-industrial life. These…
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