Lyrics
The salt trucks on Second Avenue leave white lines on the asphalt,
A diagram of every way this neighborhood will last.
The windows here are painted shut against the river's cold breath,
You nail the horseshoe open-side-up, cheating a slow death.
[Chorus]
It’s the Aliquippa Sigh
The sound the girders make giving up
Another year.
[Verse 2]
The flicker from the Hazelwood Green sign hits your face at an angle,
"Don't touch the iron," you said, "'til the echo unwinds its tangle."
We kill the porch light right before the midnight freight train groans,
A city-block conspiracy we feel inside our bones.
[Chorus]
It’s the Aliquippa Sigh
The sound the girders make giving up
Another year.
[Bridge]
It's not belief, it's ballast,
The weight that holds the foundation down.
[Outro]
Just the hum of the conduit,
And the quiet all around.
About Vaughn Kiln
Vaughn Kiln was born in the shadow of Pittsburgh's defunct steel mills, and his music still carries their metallic ring. His father was an ironworker, and Vaughn’s wiry, jagged guitar lines are built on a similar logic of stress and tension. He writes songs in the basement of the row house he shares with his partner of seven years, the metalsmith Elara. These are taut, anxious anthems about…
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