Conditional Use

[Verse 1]
The Walgreens on Division Street has the half-life of a ghost
Where we planned a new foundation on a windshield thick with frost
October, two-thousand and eight, the static on your coat
The floor plan of your laugh was the only guide I wrote

[Chorus]
We were just conditional use
A thirty-day exception to the zoning code
They tore it down for parking stalls and panoramic views
And paved over the structural load

[Verse 2]
A couple on the G train shares a single pair of buds
He traces the blue subway map inside her wrist with his thumb
It's a structure so damn fragile it could crumble into dust
I'm just documenting fault lines, a catalog of rust

[Chorus]
We were just conditional use
A thirty-day exception to the zoning code
They tore it down for parking stalls and panoramic views
And paved over the structural load

[Bridge]
You said, "I think this is forever," a whisper in the rain
A moment of satori on the Morrison Bridge train
But every torii gate just opens on the ordinary again

[Chorus]
We were just conditional use
A thirty-day exception to the zoning code
They tore it down for parking stalls and panoramic views
And paved over the structural load

[Outro]
The automatic door chimes. There's no one coming in.