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Nils Haugen

Thumb on glass

Teaches primary school and his students do not know

the numbers

bpm
152
key
B major
energy
0.73
dance
0.95
valence
0.56
vocal at
1.9s
length
5:28
language
En

lyrics

Fourteen frozen on the screen

A ferry wake in gray-blue green

Your thumb by the church wall, stiff

Salt on the lens, a cracked glass riff

I tilt the phone under the lamp

The battery is low and damp

One tap could bury every trace

But your face still cuts the case

I swipe left slow, then halt mid-air

The album loads, then strips me bare

A name in the corner, pale and small

I hear the sink, I hear it call

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I cannot kill what will not die

I cannot stare, I cannot lie

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At Bryggen rain keeps blackening wood

You wore a red scarf, knot tied good

Six steps from the tram, mud and steam

Your boots were white in one bad dream

Now the screen glows under my skin

One face held out, one face held in

Delete sits there like a nailed-up door

My hand backs off from the shore

The cursor blinks in a white-lit room

A kettle ticks, a door asks doom

I know that shape, that coat, that frame

If I erase it, what stays the same?

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I cannot kill what will not die

I cannot stare, I cannot lie

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Take the train through the wet black cut

Past containers, salt, and rusted nut

I hold the phone like a shard of bone

Not yours, not mine, but carved in stone

One pulse, then another

My finger still tremors

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I cannot kill what will not die

I cannot stare, I cannot lie

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Thumb on glass — Nils Haugen · FERAL