Lyrics
The lease on this place runs through next October,
I've already priced the one-bedroom over on Butler Street.
The late-night freight train rattles the windows sober,
And I'm drawing new blueprints, erasing your side of the sheet.
[Chorus]
Call it the damage rehearsal.
Just trying the heartache on for size.
Memorizing the stress fractures before the frame even tries.
[Verse 2]
You get the good skillet, the one with the perfect season.
I'll keep the warped records and that busted-in chair.
"We're getting too good at this," you whispered without a reason,
And the air in the kitchen felt heavy and spare.
[Bridge]
A load-bearing silence where the laughter should be.
The river keeps moving, it don't ask a thing of me.
[Chorus]
Call it the damage rehearsal.
Just trying the heartache on for size.
Memorizing the stress fractures before the frame even tries.
[Outro]
Just practicing the quiet for when it arrives.
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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Who is Wyatt Anchor?
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Damage Rehearsal is Rock.
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