Old Polaroid (Variation)
Drift
Faded square of memory. Vocals surface through aged texture, the sound of images losing color but not importance. This track is the photograph you can't throw away.
Lyrics
Found it in a shoebox by the door
Your kitchen, August, nineteen ninety-four
The colours bleeding orange at the seam
We looked so easy in that tangerine
Old polaroid
Still developing after all these years
I hold it to the light and let it breathe
Not trying to go back
Just letting it be sweet
Your mother's garden, sprinkler on the lawn
That Sunday feeling when the week was gone
We didn't know that we were making gold
We just stood there getting overexposed
Old polaroid
Still developing after all these years
I hold it to the light and let it breathe
Not trying to go back
Just letting it be sweet
Memories don't sharpen
They just warm
Like a lamp left on
In an empty room
Variations
- Old Polaroid 2:39
- Old Polaroid (Variation) 2:28