Lyrics
The Kanawha River tastes like pennies and rust.
I trace your name in the dashboard dust.
This whole town is a fault line, a fracture in the crust,
holding its breath before it gives up to the crush.
[Pre-Chorus]
And I'm trying to map the pressure and slide,
the shape of the seam where a memory died.
[Chorus]
Does the shale remember the weight?
Does the water forget the freight?
If I wash you out, just a chemical trace,
did I kill you all over in the first place?
[Verse 2]
First week of the thaw, the ground is all gristle.
Heard Mom on the phone, a low, tired whistle.
"He don't even ask," she said, "not anymore."
Just staring at the water stains blooming on the door.
[Pre-Chorus]
And I'm trying to map the pressure and slide,
the shape of the seam where a memory died.
[Chorus]
Does the shale remember the weight?
Does the water forget the freight?
If I wash you out, just a chemical trace,
did I kill you all over in the first place?
[Bridge]
Your face is a photograph faded by sun,
the lines all run blurry, one into one.
[Outro]
The river keeps moving.
Tastes like pennies and rust.
About Lane Stayton
As the oldest of six in a West Virginia factory town, Lane Stayton had to parent his siblings while still a child himself. The resentment and fierce loyalty of that stolen youth fuels his music—a heavy, sludgy grunge built on down-tuned guitars and his own pained, double-tracked vocal harmonies. His songs, written on a beat-up acoustic in a small apartment overlooking the Ohio River, are raw…
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