Lyrics
(A cappella) The Rivelin wind is clawing at the glass again
(A cappella) Like it wants what I've got locked inside
(Guitar and minimal beat enter)
I open up the kitchen drawer that always sticks
There they are, beneath a gas bill from 2017, trying to hide
[Chorus]
Two brass keys on a tarnished ring
The silent fossil of a victory I thought I had to win
Just a hairline fracture in the life we tried to build
And a quiet I can't fill
[Verse 2]
The feel of the cold metal on my palm that November night
The smell of damp wool from your coat left in the hall
"You can keep the house," you said, your voice all chalky-thin and white
Like leaving me the quarry after you'd stripped the stone from the wall
[Chorus]
Two brass keys on a tarnished ring
The silent fossil of a victory I thought I had to win
Just a hairline fracture in the life we tried to build
And a quiet I can't fill
[Bridge]
The strata of the years settles in a dust so fine
Another layer pressed upon a hidden fault line
[Outro]
The Rivelin wind can have the glass
Two brass keys and a quiet that will last
About Nick Drayton
Nick Drayton grew up in the shadow of a limestone quarry in Buxton, Derbyshire. He dropped out of a university literature degree after a year and a half, finding more truth in the worn-out faces at the cafe where he now works as a barista. His hushed, intricate songs, written on a beat-up acoustic guitar, are drawn from the slow, painful end of a five-year relationship and the quiet lives he…
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