Lyrics
The Knightstown Elementary banner's hanging by a thread.
Tuesday, seven-oh-three, a voice inside my head.
The furnace kicks a smell of dust and heated steel,
And the silence in this gymnasium is all that feels real.
[Chorus]
This is our gentle collapse, our conditional truss.
A quiet demolition happening to us.
[Verse 2]
Her knuckles are a ridge of bone, her glasses on a chain.
I trace the water damage, that pale November stain.
"Just sign on the line," she said, and her smile was a weld
Holding two rusted surfaces that can't be compelled.
[Chorus]
This is our gentle collapse, our conditional truss.
A quiet demolition happening to us.
[Bridge]
I see the blueprints drawn in sympathetic ink,
A hairline fracture in the floor, closer than you think.
Every load-bearing pleasantry is starting to bend,
This is the moment that we'll miss, right before the end.
[Outro]
The furnace kicks a smell of dust and heated steel.
The Knightstown Elementary banner doesn't feel real.
About Chris Cordel
Chris Cordel was raised in the rust-colored shadow of Pennsylvania's defunct steel mills, where his powerful singing voice was a source of shame. After his father smashed his first guitar, he left home and eventually found work as a welder, a trade that taught him about structural integrity and imperfect mends. Now, from his Pittsburgh basement, he forges soaring grunge anthems that treat the…
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