Lyrics
The Gideon bible has a coffee-cup ring.
5:18 AM, the ice machine sings
Its one broken note down the bleach-stinking hall.
The streetlight outside throws a smear on the wall,
That pale sodium orange, the color of rust.
A city of strangers turning to dust.
[Chorus]
But I feel a joy that's as hard as a bone.
This uncrushed damn minute is all that I own.
Yeah, I feel a joy like a vein in the stone.
[Verse 2]
The first garbage truck groans up on Euclid Avenue.
I trace the new crack in this cynical view.
Last night's cheap whiskey, a film on my tongue.
This is the morning for the unsung,
The ones who just made it one more night through.
Hell, maybe that's me. Maybe that's you.
[Spoken Word Interlude]
(Muffled voicemail, sounds like a younger man's voice, distant)
"Hey Lane, it's me. Listen, Ma's... the pump in the basement went out again. It's takin' on water from the river. I know you're busy, but... just call me when you can, man. It's bad."
[Chorus]
But I feel a joy that's as hard as a bone.
This uncrushed damn minute is all that I own.
Yeah, I feel a joy like a vein in the stone.
A furious quiet I'm keeping alone.
[Bridge]
All that pressure and water and time underground...
Doesn't just break you, I'm starting to see.
It forces a line of pure white through the black.
It's not forgiveness. It's just letting it be.
[Outro]
A vein in the stone...
Yeah, a vein in the stone.
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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