Lyrics
At the Hudson's counter, four on a Tuesday,
the air smells like money he's never known.
He asks for the one from the magazine runway,
his worn Carhartt jacket is thinly blown.
[Chorus]
He's buying borrowed minutes
With a factory man's pay.
Calibrating a promise
That'll strip the gears away.
[Verse 2]
The cold glass burns under his shaky hands,
he fumbles a roll of folded bills.
"One-forty, sir," she says, as she understands
the kind of quiet that this purchase kills.
[Bridge]
Two shifts for the bottle. (tick)
The rent's on the line. (tock)
A mainspring decision. (tick)
A fault in the design. (tock)
[Outro]
The automatic doors hiss him back to the grey.
The beautiful lie gets heavier with the day.
About Frank Senatra
Frank Senatra was supposed to design cars in Detroit. Instead, he had a son at 18, worked a factory line that shut down, and now pays his rent by repairing vintage watches in a small Corktown shop. He's a third-generation Sicilian-American from Hamtramck who sings the Great American Songbook as if the lyrics were blueprints for a life he's still trying to build. These are torch songs from a man…
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