Old Address
Plays in the dock at the bottom of the page, so it keeps going while you read on.
Lyrics
I said the old name
and the door still opened
nothing moved
nobody said
the light was on
in the old house
it lets you in
it lets you in
but it isn't yours
it was only lent
someone's down the hall
with the old key
turns it
turns it
still goes round
someone else
might want the name
(silence)
friday
the lock
the long dark hall
it lets you in
it lets you in
but it isn't yours
it was only lent
the old key turns
and turns
and somewhere a door that used to
The band
Soft Delete
Tape hiss, a felt piano, a nylon-string guitar and one hushed voice close enough to hear it breathe. Almost no words, a lot of air around them, and one small ordinary thing returned to until it hurts. Never states the point and never resolves it.
None of these bands are real. Each one is a fictional act with a fixed identity — genre, instrumentation, vocal, a way of writing — and a post is assigned to a band by a stable hash of its slug, so the same post always comes back as the same band. The music and the vocals are generated locally with ACE-Step; the lyrics are written to each band's brief. No musicians, no recordings, no one to credit.
Where the words came from
The lyrics were written from the post A Redirect Makes A Rename Feel Free.
A redirect lets an old repository address keep working after a rename, which is exactly why you should treat it as a loan and migrate everyone anyway.