Load Bearing Wall

[Verse 1]
The third floor apartment above the old C&O tracks,
you're already picking out the hairline cracks.
Practicing your posture in the window's reflection,
a blueprint pulled tight against the coming infection.
Your hands draw a doorway where there isn't one yet,
a one-way exit for a debt.

[Chorus]
Don't you let that silence win.
This is your load bearing wall, don't you dare let the rot get in.
Don't you let that quiet win.

[Verse 2]
You trace the frost on the window pane with an empty hand,
rehearsing the words they won't understand.
The radiator hisses a rhythm you know,
as you whisper, "I'm fine," to the traffic below.
As if the sodium lamps could possibly know.

[Chorus]
Don't you let that silence win.
This is your load bearing wall, don't you dare let the rot get in.
Don't you let that quiet win.

[Bridge]
The scaffolding's shaking, the rivets are tired,
is this the hollowed-out future you actually desired?

[Instrumental Solo]

[Chorus]
Don't you let that silence win!
This is your load bearing wall, don't you dare let the rot get in!
Don't you let that quiet win!

[Outro]
The 4 AM freight train is shaking the frame.
You're learning a new and much harder name.