Lyrics
Sal's tapping a rhythm on an Iron City amber
With his great-granddad's ring, a chip in the stone.
It's a quarter 'til closing, last Thursday in June,
And he's checking his phone, terrified of being alone.
[Chorus]
And right now I refuse to be the ghost at this bar
I'm watching a man build a life from the ground up
And tonight there is no rust
There is only this defiant, unbearable hope.
[Verse 2]
My rag smells of bleach, the varnish is worn through,
He unfolds a napkin, a floorplan he drew.
"Forever," he mouths it, "is that asking too much?"
While her headlights are crossing the Monongahela for you.
[Chorus]
And right now I refuse to be the ghost at this bar
I'm watching a man build a life from the ground up
And tonight there is no rust
There is only this defiant, unbearable hope.
[Bridge]
This city will teach you about stress and fracture,
How the rain finds the cracks in everything new.
[Outro]
The bell on the door gives a single, clean chime.
He stands up.
About Wyatt Anchor
Wyatt Anchor was raised in a Pennsylvania steel town and has worked in kitchens and bars since he was sixteen. He currently slings drinks three nights a week at a dive bar in Pittsburgh, where the stories of his regulars become the blueprints for his stadium-sized rock anthems. He's in a relationship with a line cook named Maeve; they share the same schedule, the same exhaustion, and the same…
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