Lyrics
The Goodyear sign on Route 60 is busted again, Anna.
Smells like cold river mud and diesel in the cab.
I take this exit every Tuesday, it's a sickness, I know.
Just to watch the kudzu eat your old bungalow.
[Chorus]
This is my iron compass
Pointing back to the slow collapse.
Yeah, this is my iron compass
Just tracing the cracks on your map.
[Verse 2]
That last wet August, the air was thick as tar.
'This whole damn town's a hairline fracture,' you said in the car.
The leak in your basement ceiling never got patched.
Still drips a brown circle on the concrete flat.
[Bridge]
(Music thins, vocal becomes dry, close, and intimate)
Just checking on the damage report, I guess.
Funny how rust can look like progress.
[Chorus]
This is my iron compass
Pointing back to the slow collapse.
Yeah, this is my iron compass
Just tracing the cracks on your map.
[Outro]
(Music fades out, leaving only a single, bare, reverberating vocal)
Pointing back...
Pointing back home...
About Lane Stayton
As the oldest of six in a West Virginia factory town, Lane Stayton had to parent his siblings while still a child himself. The resentment and fierce loyalty of that stolen youth fuels his music—a heavy, sludgy grunge built on down-tuned guitars and his own pained, double-tracked vocal harmonies. His songs, written on a beat-up acoustic in a small apartment overlooking the Ohio River, are raw…
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Iron Compass is Rock.
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