Lyrics
The old Sellwood span is just a ghost in the riverbed now.
I still feel the cold iron hum under my palm, somehow.
That Willamette river dampness, a grief you can wear.
Seventeen, the August before you left, standing there.
[Chorus]
Do you haunt the new steel?
Is it beautiful and unreal?
Just a routine question.
[Verse 2]
“Bet you can’t climb to the first rivet,” you dared.
Your laugh was a cracked bell, totally unprepared
For the way they’d scrape off the ivy, a parasitic braid.
A perfect, imperfect thing they unmade.
[Chorus]
Do you haunt the new steel?
Is it beautiful and unreal?
Just a routine question.
[Bridge]
I re-bind the spines on the books at the store all day.
(And I know it’s stupid but I still wait for your reply.)
Some things you can’t mend, they just get replaced.
[Chorus]
So do you haunt the new steel?
Is it beautiful and unreal?
Just a routine question.
[Outro]
Yeah, just a routine question.
About Karen Wren
Karen Wren was raised in the quiet, rain-soaked suburbs of Portland, Oregon. After leaving the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in her third year, feeling disconnected from its rigid classicism, she returned home with a mountain of student debt and her grandmother's Japanese folk songbook. She writes her lush, melancholic piano ballads in the pre-dawn quiet of her small apartment before her…
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