Lyric

The vent above the kitchen door

Comes on and lifts the curtain edge

A taxi turns below the window

Then disappears behind the block

Your name is glowing on my phone

Above the message I won't play

Forty seconds under your picture

My thumb has found it twice

The refrigerator cuts out

And the room changes for a second

Then the pipes knock through the ceiling

My hand moves toward the phone

The last intake before daylight

Forty seconds left unheard

I could hear your voice by touching once

I leave it there again

The grey along the window lifts

While shutters rattle down the block

The last intake before daylight

Forty seconds by your name

A delivery truck takes the corner

Its tires fading through the rain

I open up the kitchen drawer

Looking for a spoon I don't need

Close it, cross the room again

Then forget what brought me there

The voicemail waits below your picture

Forty seconds, still untouched

I press two fingers below my jaw

And watch the screen go dark

The lift stops somewhere above me

Then starts moving down again

I hear the cables through the wall

No one rings the bell

The last intake before daylight

Forty seconds left unheard

I could hear your voice by touching once

I leave it there again

The grey along the window lifts

While shutters rattle down the block

The last intake before daylight

Forty seconds by your name

At five the bakery downstairs

Starts dragging trays across the floor

A metal shutter rises halfway

Then catches, drops, and starts again

I take your mug down to the sink

Leave the handle facing out

The fridge motor starts behind me

As the grinder runs below

The vent comes on above the doorway

Cool air moves across my shirt

I stand there with the phone unlocked

Your message waiting under my thumb

Someone laughs out on the pavement

A scooter pulls away outside

I lock the screen without deleting

The forty seconds by your name

The last intake before daylight

Forty seconds left unheard

The street is filling underneath me

Your message hasn't moved

Shutters open down the block

The bakery door swings wide

The screen goes dark beneath my thumb

Forty seconds still unheard

Your mug is drying by the sink

The phone stays dark beside my hand

Another tray scrapes across the floor

The vent keeps humming overhead