Lyrics
The Clarke buffer hums on the third-floor linoleum.
Third shift Tuesday, a late November gloom.
I trace the friction burns, the pale yellow scuffs,
Remembering the tensile strength was never enough.
[Chorus]
This is the yield point, the future I drew,
A cot by the window with a Ballard Bridge view.
Just a slow, plastic warp under permanent load,
The quietest address on the loneliest road.
[Verse 2]
You said, "The wear on this bearing is terminal, Kurt."
I charted the vibration, the resonant hurt.
Cataloged tolerances, the smell of hot steel,
Prepping for a failure I hadn't let myself feel.
[Bridge]
(Haunting musical saw solo, melodic and aching, echoing in a sparse, ambient space)
[Outro]
The buffer's gone quiet on the third-floor linoleum.
The deformation's permanent in the empty room.
About Kurt Cohan
Kurt Cohan grew up in the shadow of a Port Angeles pulp mill, spending his youth studying old medical textbooks and his nights learning to play a beat-up Fender Mustang. Now, living in Seattle and working as a hospital janitor, he writes songs like a coroner's report, dissecting the decay of his hometown and the anxieties of the human body. His music is the sound of a clinical diagnosis turning…
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Who is Kurt Cohan?
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The Yield Point is Rock.
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