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[Verse 1]
On Ushakova, the wall remembers
A painted face above the street
Five summers held inside the plaster
A borrowed chorus, weather-worn and deep

[Pre-Chorus]
Then a letter crossed the city
Saying change the face, replace the name
But the people in those windows
Hadn’t asked to lose a thing

[Chorus]
Leave the guitar on the old brick wall
Let the years decide what stays
A town can keep its own reflection
Even when the colors fade
You can cover up the portrait
You can silence every line
But the place that held the picture
Keeps its outline in the mind

[Verse 2]
The artist watched the seasons pass there
While rain took pieces from the paint
Now the strings remain in fragments
And the empty wall feels strange

[Pre-Chorus]
Two thirds of every doorway
Would have to speak before it changed
Still nobody came to ask for it
Still nobody called it shame

[Chorus]
Leave the guitar on the old brick wall
Let the years decide what stays
A town can keep its own reflection
Even when the colors fade
You can cover up the portrait
You can silence every line
But the place that held the picture
Keeps its outline in the mind

[Bridge]
I spent my childhood turning pages
Past the records in your room
All that noise became a country
I could carry out of view
If the wall is all that’s left here
Let it tell us what we knew

[Final Chorus]
Leave the guitar on the old brick wall
Let the years decide what stays
A town can keep its own reflection
Even when the colors fade
You can cover up the portrait
You can silence every line
But the place that held the picture
Keeps its outline in the mind

[Outro]
On Ushakova, the wall remembers
The guitar remains in time