Lyrics
The Salvation Army off Milwaukee Avenue
sold me your ghost for eleven fifty-two.
The collar still smells of cedar and the 'L' train's brake dust,
a load-bearing seam holding someone else's trust.
[Chorus]
And I'm living in the lines you drew,
a second-hand blueprint I'm trying to see through.
I'm living in the lines you drew,
are they holding me up or just burying your view?
[Verse 2]
It was January cold, the third week of the thaw,
when my own shape started to obey its unfamiliar law.
The guy at the counter said, "Looks like it was made for you,"
and I thought about the lie, and how the lie felt true.
[Chorus]
And I'm living in the lines you drew,
a second-hand blueprint I'm trying to see through.
I'm living in the lines you drew,
are they holding me up or just burying your view?
[Bridge]
Every hairline crack in this city's design
was a stress-fracture that you once called a lifeline.
[Outro]
A tenant in this skin. A tenant in this coat.
About Gideon Toll
Born Gwidon Opłatek to Polish factory workers in Hamtramck, Michigan, Gideon Toll was supposed to be an architect. He dropped out of college and instead began drafting musical blueprints of the Rust Belt's decay, his lyrics full of the structural language he never forgot. Now based in Chicago, his songs, built on a rumbling baritone guitar, are cinematic elegies for an industrial America, written…
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