Residue of a Former Self

Verse

Filter catches what the water leaves

Fine grey film across the mesh

I know it's mine

I know it isn't

Skin cells in the drain again

Static on the glass this morning

Dust in lines where light comes through

I know I moved

I know I didn't

Same print pressed on every surface

Pre-Chorus

Tell me what the filter keeps

Tell me what it lets go through

I know it's nothing

I know it's everything

Chorus

Residue of a former self

Residue, it won't dissolve

Residue of a former self

Caught in the mesh, it won't dissolve

Verse

Coffee ring, a week old now

Circle where the cup once stood

I know that's not me

I know it is

Shape outlasts the thing that made it

Air vent hums the same low note

Particles keep settling down

I know I'm moving

I know I'm still

Layer on layer, never lifted

Pre-Chorus

Tell me what the filter keeps

Tell me what it lets go through

I know it's nothing

I know it's everything

Chorus

Residue of a former self

Residue, it won't dissolve

Residue of a former self

Caught in the mesh, it won't dissolve

Bridge

Wash it clean

It comes back thicker

Wash it clean

The stain gets faster

Nothing left

But it keeps arriving

Nothing left

And still it's rising

Chorus

Residue of a former self

Residue, it won't dissolve

Residue of a former self

Caught in the mesh, it won't dissolve