Drawer

"Drawer" uses its central metaphor with the quiet precision that characterizes 10cm's best songwriting. The song imagines feelings — specifically suppressed, unresolved feelings about someone — as objects stored away in a drawer: out of sight, still there, accumulating in the dark. The production maintains the warm intimacy of the project's signature sound while introducing more deliberate pacing, as if the music itself is reluctant to open something that's been closed. Guitar and piano share the harmonic space evenly, neither dominating, creating a balance that mirrors the lyrical tension between holding on and letting go. Kwon Jung-yeol's vocal performance is restrained almost to the point of flatness, which turns out to be exactly right — the song's emotional weight comes from what's kept back, not what's expressed. The English title, like several 10cm tracks, makes the object (the drawer) more concrete and slightly more universal. Culturally, the drawer represents a common coping mechanism — the act of compartmentalization that those who value emotional reserve might recognize as daily practice. The listening scenario is one of quiet domesticity: tidying a room, coming across an old photograph, that particular ache of encountering something you thought you'd successfully stored away.