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.
“Did you write?”
“It’s not stealing. It’s… research.” Leo clicked.
Then lyrics. Real ones. About a Ford Fiesta, a beach in Howth, and a man who never came back from the shop.
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.