Lyrics
You know you’re gonna miss this feeling later.
The foundation pouring for some skyscraper.
You know you’re gonna miss this fading light.
A blueprint for a loneliness tonight.
[Verse 1]
The rust on the rebar at the Alamitos Channel.
You trace the hairline cracks on the concrete panel.
That July after graduation, the air thick with salt and diesel,
you felt the city hold a breath it couldn't keep from leaking.
[Chorus]
You know you’re gonna miss this feeling later.
The foundation pouring for some skyscraper.
You know you’re gonna miss this fading light.
A blueprint for a loneliness tonight.
[Verse 2]
She drew a heart in chalk on the retaining wall.
You said, "Hydrostatic pressure's gonna make that fall."
She laughed, said "God, you think too much, just let it be."
The cold concrete on your back felt like the only solid thing.
[Bridge]
This wasn't love, it was the formwork for it.
A temporary mold before the memory distorts it.
That single point of stress before the structure has to give.
[Outro]
Yeah, you're gonna miss this later.
A ghost in the formwork.
About Corbin Slate
Corbin Slate was supposed to design buildings. After a crisis of confidence led him to drop out of CalArts' prestigious art program, he took a soul-crushing job as a CAD drafter, spending his days drawing lines for a city he felt invisible in. From his small Long Beach apartment, surrounded by his grandfather's old drafting tools, he began writing songs in secret, using the language of…
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Who is Corbin Slate?
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