Lyrics
The Kinzie Street Bridge waits for the thaw,
A cold iron palm on the Tuesday before Lent.
This is the hour before the language corrodes,
Before your name is a number I once spent.
[Chorus]
The ballast stone shifts in the mud.
A slow, slow unwiring of the blood.
[Verse 2]
I found that photograph from the Hanley brickworks,
Your arm on my shoulder, a face of silicate smirks.
Now the signal just hums a dead carrier tone,
And the silence between us has a weight of its own.
[Chorus]
The ballast stone shifts in the mud.
A slow, slow unwiring of the blood.
[Bridge]
"'We're foundation,' you said, 'the gantry and the beam.'"
Just a hairline fracture now, a crepuscular dream.
[Outro]
(sound of a distant L train passing, then silence)
The hum is the only thing left.
About Fletcher Reed
Fletcher Reed grew up in a terraced house in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, that smelled of his ceramicist mother's clay and his factory-worker father's machine oil. At 21, he moved to Chicago, chasing the ghost of the house music he'd heard on his dad's old records. He now works as a night porter, writing atmospheric lounge tracks on a vintage Juno-106 synthesizer during the city's quietest hours. His…
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