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Priya Nair

Still walking home

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

the numbers

bpm
103
key
B minor
energy
0.72
dance
0.93
valence
0.46
vocal at
7.0s
length
3:29
language
Ta

lyrics

I left your call on read

At the tea shop by the stand

My dupatta smelled of rain

And a broken bottle in my hand

The mechanic shut his shed

The milk man crossed the lane

I counted tiles on the road

Till my sandals filled with rain

The watch on my wrist said one ten

Your words still cut my throat

I folded my bus pass twice

And held it like a coat

Still walking home

Still walking home

Still walking home

Still walking home

Past the locked fish market gate

Still walking home

The blue gate stuck halfway

Your voice rang sharp and thin

A dog slept on a carton box

Near the wet jasmine skin

I passed the மருத்துவ shop

The packet rack stood bare

My phone screen lit my palm

Then died in the air

Still walking home

Still walking home

Still walking home

Still walking home

Past the locked fish market gate

Still walking home

At four, the street sweeper came

Pushing grit by the kerb

He looked at my torn sleeve

Then looked away, disturbed

I washed my feet in the sink

Cold tap, chipped white tile

No call, no more noise

Just the fan for a while

Still walking home

Still walking home

Still walking home

Still walking home

Past the locked fish market gate

Still walking home