Lukewarm Time Lag

Lukewarm Time Lag is a mid tempo city pop track that portrays a late autumn night when a woman who has been keeping water warm for someone who comes home a little later each evening realizes that her own hands have become a device for waiting.
A kitchen on a late autumn night, two cups turned face down for two, a flask on the table, water reboiled each time it cools, and the low hum of the warmer create a quiet domestic scene where the slowly widening time lag between two people becomes impossible to ignore.

Performed by the fictional AI singer Akemi, the song captures the emotions of adulthood that will not ask him to come home early as before and will not go to check, yet cannot avoid noticing the hands that keep holding in the heat.
Inspired by the late 1970s to early 1980s Japanese new music and city pop, the track reimagines that era domestic lyricism through images of city nights, late night radio, and the quiet temperature of two lives drifting out of sync.

With a finger resting on the switch, caught between boiling it once more and stopping for the night, the moving hand falls still. She cuts the warmer, lets the water go cold, empties the lukewarm water into the sink, and steps down from the place of waiting by her own choice.

Produced by nanayon music.