Lyrics
Your U-Haul blocked the hydrant Tuesday morning
Scraped the brick on Number 417
I saw you checking all the window caulking
Like you could seal a history from getting in.
[Chorus]
So you got the keys, you got the deed now, honey
A victory lap down a dead-end street
You patched the stress lines with his easy money
But that floorboard groans a rhythm you can't beat.
[Verse 2]
Heard you through the drywall, voice uncertain
Asking him about a photograph
He said, "Just ghosts behind a paper curtain"
And you tried to make a fortress from his laugh.
[Chorus]
'Cause you got the keys, you got the deed now, honey
A victory lap down a dead-end street
You patched the stress lines with his easy money
But that floorboard groans a rhythm you can't beat.
[Bridge]
This house is just a set of new retaining walls
Built to hold the memory of her name
And you can polish all the fixtures in the halls
But the property lines, they stay the same.
[Outro]
The 2 a.m. freight horn starts its slow refrain.
Sounds just like leaving. Still feels like rain.
About Phyllis Hyland
Phyllis Hyland was raised in the shadow of the steel mills of Lorain, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. At nineteen, she moved to Philadelphia to study architecture but dropped out to pursue the Philly-soul sound she'd idolized on her mother's records. Her songs are architectural structures of their own, built with a rich contralto and the raw materials of her Rust Belt past. She still keeps her…
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