[Instrumental - dry syncopated percussion, elastic sub pulse, sparse wooden synth hits] [Intro - calm female spoken] Lost property. Terminal B. Describe it. [Verse 1] One red glove in drawer seventeen Reading glasses in a plastic case A silver watch stopped at 6:03 Three passports waiting in the safe Fourteen umbrellas Mostly black One tiny shoe No matching half A man comes running from arrivals Says he left his camera here “What colour?” “Black.” I point behind me. “Join the queue.” [Pre-Chorus] Name the mark Name the scratch Tell me something Only you would know [Chorus] Describe it Tell me where the damage is Describe it Every stain and broken bit If the story matches If the number fits Describe it Then you can have it back [Post-Chorus] Colour? Black. Brand? Forgot. Anything else? There’s a dent on top. [Instrumental Break - batida groove, clipped vocal fragments] [Verse 2] Someone lost a wedding shoe Size thirty-nine, champagne stain Someone left a violin And somehow never came again Blue toy rabbit Missing ear Found at gate A twenty-three A little boy sees it through the glass His mother barely gets his name out He knows the ear He knows the thread He knows the marker on its head That one’s easy [Pre-Chorus] Name the mark Name the scratch Tell me something Only you would know [Chorus] Describe it Tell me where the damage is Describe it Every stain and broken bit If the story matches If the number fits Describe it Then you can have it back [Instrumental Break - deeper sub, sparse percussion] [Bridge - percussion stripped down] At one forty-seven A woman asks: “Do you keep things without a claim number?” I say: “Sometimes.” She says: “For how long?” I look at the shelves. “Depends what it is.” [Final Chorus - wider, melodic but controlled] Describe it Tell me what it looked like then Describe it Before somebody lost the end If the story matches If there’s proof it still exists Describe it Maybe you can have it back [Final Break] Colour? Don’t know. Brand? None. Anything else? I’d know it if I saw it. [Outro - dry spoken] Lost property. Terminal B. Next.
