Lyrics
The DLR rattles past Mudchute at 4:17am.
My breath on the glass is a temporary blueprint.
This city's a loom, all sodium light and thread,
weaving a peace from the words you left unsaid.
[Chorus]
So this is my letter, signed in fierce daylight.
I'm weaving a joy you don't get to rewrite.
[Verse 2]
Mum said you were "just built on a different gradient."
I found your old sax, the brass cold and patient.
I don't play your blues, I don't carry that weight.
I'm mending the fractures you thought were my fate.
[Chorus]
So this is my letter, signed in fierce daylight.
I'm weaving a joy you don't get to rewrite.
[Bridge]
A different tempo for this lacuna in the sky,
the porcelain cracks, but the glaze is running high.
[Outro]
The scaffolding's mine now.
The view is all mine.
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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