Lyrics
You check the torque on a '98 Ford again, it's almost four AM.
Your knuckles are bleeding through the grease, you don't even notice them.
There's a picture of his kid taped to your toolbox lid.
A different last name, a life you undid.
[Chorus]
This house we drew on a bar-napkin blueprint,
you built yours outta steel and you just went.
[Verse 2]
Remember that August, the air thick as tar on the Yazoo riverbank?
You threw a rock and said, "We ain't dyin' in this town," and you didn't even blink.
Now there's a crack in the shop floor shaped like a state line.
And you pretend you don't trace it with your boot sometimes.
[Chorus]
This house we drew on a bar-napkin blueprint,
you built yours outta steel and you just went.
[Bridge]
His hands send a postcard from somewhere with mountains.
And you keep your own hands clean with a solvent that burns right down to the bone.
[Outro]
Yeah, you just went.
Just the frame rust.
About Otis Reddick
Otis Reddick was supposed to go to trade school in Memphis. Instead, the eldest of six siblings in Clarksdale, Mississippi, he stayed home to support his family, trading his scholarship for a job at the local auto-body shop he still works at today. His voice, a raw sandpaper tenor, was honed in the late-night quiet of a garage, surrounded by tools and the ghosts of deferred dreams. These are the…
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