Lyrics
The spare key to the Jefferson Chalmers house on a single steel ring.
Its teeth feel cold against my palm, a promise that won't sing.
I won the argument, I won the lease, I won this quiet room.
I trace the aperture of afternoon light mapping out the gloom.
[Chorus]
This is the dead load, baby, the cost of the quiet.
Just the static weight now, a structural riot.
The foundation's steady and the framework is true.
But every empty space is a floor plan of you.
[Verse 2]
The faded ticket stub from that film at the Majestic, October twenty-first.
The paper's soft with friction, holding back the final burst.
You said, "it's just a thing," so casual and low.
Another artifact for the archive of what I'm not supposed to know.
[Chorus]
This is the dead load, baby, the cost of the quiet.
Just the static weight now, a structural riot.
The foundation's steady and the framework is true.
But every empty space is a floor plan of you.
[Bridge]
All this negative space where your clutter used to be.
An inventory of silence, for only me to see.
[Outro]
The dead load.
Just the dead load now.
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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