Stress Test

[Verse 1]
Found your level in the basement joists
Still true after twenty Augusts
The bubble floats between the lines
A perfect lie for a crooked time

[Pre-Chorus]
And under the stairs, behind a loose brick
Was a tin box with a busted-up trick latch
Full of paper that folded like skin
Showing the schematics from way back when
Every stress point, every secret brace
That held this house up in this goddamn place

[Chorus]
Is a [low]secret[/low] a load-bearing wall?
Does it hold you up or make you [low]fall[/low]?
I'm reading your blueprints in the dark
And every word is a question mark

[Verse 2]
They smell like cedar and thirty-year rain
A hairline fracture running through your name
You always said, "measure twice, cut once"
But the math you did here doesn't add up

[Pre-Chorus]
And under the stairs, behind a loose brick
Was a tin box with a busted-up trick latch
Full of paper that folded like skin
Showing the schematics from way back when
Every stress point, every secret brace
That held this house up in this goddamn place

[Chorus]
Is a [low]secret[/low] a load-bearing wall?
Does it hold you up or make you [low]fall[/low]?
I'm reading your blueprints in the dark
And every word is a question mark

[Bridge]
The throat goes tight on a welder's seam
When the heat's too high on a bad old dream
Should I fix the crack? Or let it show?
Guess a son becomes the man he didn't know

[Outro]
Yeah, I'm reading your blueprints in the dark
And every word is a question mark