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Priya Nair

Same old faces

Writes anti-love songs in a film industry that only commissions love songs

the numbers

bpm
103
key
F minor
energy
0.70
dance
0.94
valence
0.46
vocal at
1.7s
length
3:26
language
Ta

lyrics

At Nungambakkam station, you wore the same white shirt

My soda glass had chips, your laugh still knew the hurt

We spoke in half-finished lines across the steel chair line

Your watch was ten minutes slow, but your eyes kept time

I looked for some new light

Some crack in the frame

But your pen still bites

And my name sounds the same

Same old faces

Same old faces

Same old faces

Same old faces

We came back close

But nothing replaced it

Your mother’s steel dabba sat by the cracked red wall

The mango pickle jar had dried, still spilling its salt

You folded your napkin once, like you did at sixteen

I found my old keychain, bent and painted green

I wanted a shift, some small repair

A different ring in the air

But your shrug came first

And I stayed right there

Same old faces

Same old faces

Same old faces

Same old faces

We came back close

But nothing replaced it

On the bus back home, the rain hit the window pane

Your shoes were still untied, and mine were still the same

No one became a stranger

No one became new

That’s the saddest part

I still know you

Same old faces

Same old faces

Same old faces

Same old faces

We came back close

But nothing replaced it