The Script - Discography -2008-2012-.torrent [DIRECT]
The torrent chugged to life. The Script - The Script (2008).mp3 – 3.2 MB. Then Science & Faith (2010) – 4.1 MB. Then the rare B-sides from 2012, the ones never released in Ireland. The file names glowed like amber streetlights.
That was Aoife. Summer 2011. They had danced on the beach in Howth until the guards told them to leave. She had laughed, and he had promised to write her a song one day. She left for Toronto two months later. He never wrote it.
He typed: “Title: The Leaver’s Son.” The Script - Discography -2008-2012-.torrent
Track four from Science & Faith : “For the first time, I’m looking in her eyes…”
“Did you write?”
Leo slammed his laptop shut. He was twenty-seven, broke, and living in a Dublin flat that smelled of damp wool and last night’s chips. His band had just broken up—the bassist ran off to London, the drummer got a "real job." The only thing left was the ghost of a melody stuck in his head and a borrowed hard drive with exactly 47 cents to his name.
She read the first line. Her eyes went wide. “Leo… that’s good.” The torrent chugged to life
He was seventeen again, sitting in his mum’s clapped-out Ford Fiesta, rain hammering the roof. She had just told him his father wasn’t coming back. The radio was playing “Breakeven.” He had cried so hard he didn’t notice the traffic light turn green three times.