Chalk-Grey Street
numanpi· 4:23 · 197 plays · v3-preview
- symphonic
- liquid funk
- jump-up
- deep
- string arrangements
- percussion
- reverb
- uncommon time signatures
- cello
- violin
- piano
- guitar
- duduk
- horns
- 2020s
- choir
- finger snaps
- female vocalist
- backing vocals
Lyrics
Intro
Wednesday, eight sharp (Wednesday, eight sharp)
A machine the size of a house ate the house
Nobody rang
Sixty years to lay the brick
One loud hour to hand it to the wind
Chorus
Settle down (Settle down)
Sixty years of brick and lime
Chalk-grey over the street right now
The wall was there, the wall is air
The dust still hangs tonight
It all came down to settling down (Settling down)
Drop
Settling down
Point of no standing back
Verse 1
Wrecking arm
Swings at ten
Two swings and the roof came in
The cloud rolled out the hollow door
Coats white like flour to the knee
I watched through glass instead
Pre-Chorus
Look down
Look in
Watch the street go chalk-grey
On me
On us
On everything that stood as home
Chorus
Settle down (Settle down)
Sixty years of brick and lime
Chalk-grey over the street right now
The wall was there, the wall is air
The dust still hangs tonight
It all came down to settling down (Settling down)
Drop
Settling down
The sill is settling down
Verse 2
Sill of white
I leave it there
The dust came home and took a chair
One doorknob out the rubble pile
Porcelain, cool, it turned once — it's in my pocket now
Pre-Chorus
Look down
Look in
Watch the street go chalk-grey
On me
On us
On everything that stood as home
Chorus
Settle down (Settle down)
Sixty years of brick and lime
Chalk-grey over the street right now
The wall was there, the wall is air
The dust still hangs tonight
It all came down to settling down (Settling down)
Drop
Settling down
The sill is settling down
Bridge
Chalk on glass
Chalk on frames
Chalk on names
The wind got first (The wind got first)
I got the rest (The dust got here)
It settles where it wants
Six months of dust upon the sill
I never wiped it once
I dust for no one anymore — this one can stay
Chorus
Settle down (Settle down)
Sixty years of brick and lime
Chalk-grey over the street right now
The wall was there, the wall is air
The dust still hangs tonight
It all came down to settling down (Settling down)
Drop
Settling down
Point of no standing back
Outro
Chalk
Chalk on the sill
A grey line where the wall was there (Where the wall was there)
Still
So still
It all came down
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