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Hailey Cruz

Still in my drawer

Stanford ML student, cheerleader, surfer, and a whole second life nobody on campus knows about

the numbers

bpm
123
key
F minor
energy
0.72
dance
0.94
valence
0.59
vocal at
1.3s
length
3:10
language
En

lyrics

I found your note in the spare-room drawer

Under receipts from the hardware store

Blue ink bent where the paper wore

Folded once, then folded once more

At 7:18, I read your name

Rain on the sill, and the page looked the same

Palo Alto morning, pale window frame

I kept it there like a saved-up flame

Thumb on the crease, I almost called

Then I watched the dust on the dresser fall

Your words were small, but they hit like a wall

Still I locked that drawer and left it all

Still in my drawer

Still in my drawer

Still in my drawer

Still in my drawer

By the coffee tin and the AAA card

By the red gel pen and the torn-up yard

I know the place where the edges are scarred

It never moved, though the weeks got hard

You wrote, “Come by,” on the second line

Then you crossed it out with a jagged line

Now the paper bends in the half-light shine

And my hand stops there every time

Thumb on the crease, I almost called

Then I watched the dust on the dresser fall

Your words were small, but they hit like a wall

Still I locked that drawer and left it all

Still in my drawer

Still in my drawer

Still in my drawer

Still in my drawer

I pulled the drawer on a Sunday noon

One gold ring stain from an old spoon

No more waiting for some perfect tune

Just your blue ink under the June

Still in my drawer

Still in my drawer

Still in my drawer

Still in my drawer