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Rebar and Roses

Gideon Toll
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Gideon Toll
Indie / Alternative3:44April 19, 2026
0:00 3:44

Influenced by The National, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The War on Drugs. Born Gwidon Opłatek to Polish factory workers in Hamtramck, Michigan, Gideon Toll was supposed to be an architect. He dropped out of college and instead began drafting musical blueprints of the Rust Belt's decay, his lyrics full of the structural language he never forgot. Now based in Chicago, his songs, built on a rumbling baritone guitar, are cinematic elegies for an industrial America, written by a man who still keeps his father's steel lunchbox on his desk.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The voicemail beep on your landline, one-oh-three AM...
I'm calling from a kitchen made of cold Italian stone.
The architect who drafted this, he never thought of them—
the people paid to wipe the marble counters all alone.
The air in here smells like money and clean, empty space.

[Chorus]
This house has perfect angles
And no room left for ghosts.

[Verse 2]
Through the glass, the city's laid out like a circuit board tonight.
Their laughter is a stress-fracture that runs along the pane.
You always said, "A man's work shows up in the fading light."
My hands just smell like lemon soap and someone else's champagne.

[Chorus]
This house has perfect angles
And no room left for ghosts.

[Bridge]
(sound of a distant party, a single glass clinks)
Sorry, I just... I think I saw the schematic for my life, you know?
The blueprint had a different window, different grade of wood.
I must have used the wrong damn scale a long, long time ago.

[Outro]
...shit, I gotta go.
Someone's coming down the hall.

About Gideon Toll

Born Gwidon Opłatek to Polish factory workers in Hamtramck, Michigan, Gideon Toll was supposed to be an architect. He dropped out of college and instead began drafting musical blueprints of the Rust Belt's decay, his lyrics full of the structural language he never forgot. Now based in Chicago, his songs, built on a rumbling baritone guitar, are cinematic elegies for an industrial America, written…

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