Lyrics
THE KAISERTOWN COUGH, I'M THE CATCH IN THE PHARYNX
THE GHOST IN THE LUNG YOUR GRANDFATHER CARRIED FROM GDANSK
I'M THE THIRD WEEK OF MARCH WHEN THE ICE ON THE RIVER GROANS
THE DEBT IN YOUR CARTILAGE, THE ARCH OF YOUR FATHER'S BONES
[Chorus]
I am the pressure, the unpaid interest
I am the prayer you don't know you've inherited
[Verse 2]
The felt on the wallpaper peels under your thumb
The windowpane rattles to a new kind of hum
You trace the faint outline, the ghost of a picture frame
And you clear your throat twice, just to practice the name
[Chorus]
I am the pressure, the unpaid interest
I am the prayer you don't know you've inherited
[Bridge]
"Just a bit of bad air," she'd say, tapping her chest.
A silence so heavy you could put it to rest.
But you don't.
[Outro]
Inhale.
About Jude Beckley
Jude Beckley grew up in the shadow of Buffalo's abandoned steel mills, learning to sing from a worn-out Jeff Buckley cassette. At 22, he nearly lost his life to an overdose in the bathroom of the same rock club he'd once dreamed of playing, a moment that forced him into a raw and unglamorous sobriety. Now, five years clean, he writes cavernous, gospel-tinged rock songs on his father's old…
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