Locked Drawers

from Step Siblings by Fer Sher

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lyrics

Cover me in silk and dust
Silver and musty
But mostly a shimmering layer that I'm swathed in
I'll pick at the seams of the curtain that coats me in burgundy velvel
Soft or rough, depending on the way that you stroke it
I'm stoking the embers with tenderness, care, to keep tenderness there
Inside a corner of me
Forgetting and forgotten
How all of this once was only natural coming
Naturally, I've been adapting
The day I was born I was torn into behaviours
Poured myself full into a glass of apple juice
And I was sleek and clean, easy, like the person before me
Folded my skin into a neat little drawer and locked it
These cracks in crushed velvet tend in different directions
These sections of seams are anxiously undone
These are not symptoms
Do you need me to prove it?
It's an untethered retaliation against moving
Keeping loud
Keeping feral
Skin soft and vulnerable
Stripped of sleek clothing
Unlearning technique and etiquette composing
Hands untold and untelling
Holding hands holding
It's like this
Please, tell me it's like this
Tell me what it's like

credits

from Step Siblings, released February 26, 2020
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Ben Evans

Artwork by Alixandra Overing

Huge love to Aaron Cohenca and Jeremy Turowets for their compositional contributions

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