Lyrics
The front hall deadbolt makes its final click.
The whole house holds its breath for a half-a-second tick.
That cloud of gardenia and department store light
Cuts right through the smell of the cutting oil.
You tell yourself it’s just another gear in the week.
[Chorus]
And you wind the mainspring, a little too tight.
You tell yourself it’s just another Thursday night.
[Verse 2]
Upstairs, the boy's breathing is a steady escapement.
You built this whole quiet from scrap and from pavement.
"He's fine," you hear her say, "Just an hour or two."
But the tolerance on 'fine' is a line you can't move.
[Chorus]
And you wind the mainspring, a little too tight.
You tell yourself it’s just another Thursday night.
[Bridge]
It's not the silk dress or the wooden hanger,
It's the quiet tick of a carefully managed anger.
[Outro]
The deadbolt clicks home. A clean, cold sound.
You just turn the next screw around.
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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