🎵 Aberdeen (Patreon)

EDIT: A slightly different master that fixes an issue I had with it at 03:52. And makes the whole thing a bit more dynamic, idk.

There, I ruined it <3

_[Intro]Evergreen in the air is a jacket, straightWanting to escape but I'mTrapped in a basket'Cause I need to make my wayMaybe I just need a little change.

[Verse]The neighbors deem her strange—her thoughts a hidden latch,She traces frost on windowpanes, then whispers to the thatch.A ribbon in her apron—she names the evening stars,Frayed hems upon her petticoat, she claims the night is harsh.

[Verse]I vow she speaks to willows, and treads the narrow path—Faint lavender in woven locks—no tale repeats the math.A neighbor calls her “lonely”—the milkman cannot see—But I have watched the window blink, and know she must be keen.

[Bridge]Her fence collects the blackbirds, her dress collects the sun,She smiles as if the morning’s glass had never come undone.

[Pre-chorus]She ties her shoes with daffodils, she signs her name in steam—No letters ever came for her—except, perhaps, in dream.

[Chorus]Evergreen in the air is a jacketStraight wanting to escape but I'mTrapped in a basket'Cause I need to make my wayMaybe I just need a little change.

[Verse]Some say her name’s a compass, a bell beneath the green—Crushed before the Sunday bell, and crushed by all between.Aberdeen, the women sing, will wander past the spring—But Aberdeen walks quietly; her heart does not take wing.

[Verse]And if she loves a robin, and if she fears the frost,She cups a brittle syllable, considers what is lost.We watch her from the hydrangeas, our distance always neat—But Aberdeen will always find the wildness in the wheat.

[Pre-outro]The lamp above her windowsill has never burned quite right,She pins her hope to feather ends, she braids her will to light.A dozen summer evenings drift by in crooked line—Aberdeen still counting—one for hers, and two for mine.

[Outro]Evergreen in the air is a jacketStraight wanting to escape but I'mTrapped in a basket'Cause I need to make my wayMaybe I just need a little change.

_Aberdeen, Me_4, Draft 4.wav (from Aberdeen, v17C-05C_R06.wav)