Lyrics
This box of busted Tri-X from '03
Is a catalogue of every way to not be me.
Smells like stop bath, vinegar, and rust,
Every single memory returned to dust.
[Chorus]
But here's a double-exposure of you by the river
And the ghost of a northbound freight train
[Verse 2]
My high school teacher said, "Roy, your framing's a sin,
You cut off their heads where their halos begin."
Lord knows I tried to get the focus right,
Just got a whole lot of grain and not enough light.
[Chorus]
But here's a double-exposure of you by the river
And the ghost of a northbound freight train
[Bridge]
One lucky mistake in a thousand rolls of film,
An accidental truth held outside the frame's realm.
[Outro]
Just one shot in focus.
The rest is coming back home.
About Townes Van Roy
Townes Van Roy was born between two worlds in Del Rio, Texas, to a Border Patrol agent father and a mother from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. He learned to speak Spanish in his grandmother’s kitchen near a specific panadería on Calle Hidalgo and learned about heartbreak when the border separated his own family. After dropping out of high school, he picked up his father’s old Yamaha nylon-string and…
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