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Priya Nair

Small red check

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

the numbers

bpm
103
key
D major
energy
0.71
dance
0.94
valence
0.44
vocal at
8.7s
length
3:11
language
Ta

lyrics

You folded my school shirt by the fan

Packed my lunch box with a steel spoon tight

At the bus stop, you fixed my collar then

Looked away when I turned for the light

No proud words ever sat on your tongue

Just a hand on my head, quick and plain

Then one July morning, the envelope swung

And you read my name twice in the rain

Small red check

Small red check

Small red check

Small red check

On the last page of my form

I found it inside your sewing tin

Under buttons, a thimble, thread, and chalk

That tiny mark where you wrote me in

And kept it folded in a sugar tin box

Small red check

Small red check

Small red check

Small red check

On the last page of my form

You never said it, not once, not loud

But the checkmark stayed where your silence lay

In the temple queue, in the rain-cloud crowd

I learned some love only shows that way

Small red check

Small red check

Small red check

Small red check

On the last page of my form
Small red check — Priya Nair · FERAL