Lyrics
The first frost of November seals the crack in the porch paint.
You trace the address on the cardboard with a cheap ballpoint.
Four-one-seven, Van Buren Street, same as it's always been.
I watch you shim the last box tight and let the silence in.
The freight train on the old EJ&E line sings its usual blues.
Another set of ghosts about to lose.
[Chorus]
And I don't feel the sadness, I just feel the torque.
Of the Phillips-head turning, the tired woodwork.
This is a special kind of anger, holding down the rust.
You're just a name scratched out and covered up with dust.
[Verse 2]
Your mother planted tulips here in the spring of 'ninety-three.
I felt the trowel hit my anchor screw, she didn't notice me.
You told the girl, "It's just a place, we'll build another frame."
She's got your jawline, and your debt to the name.
You sweep the floorboards, but you can't sweep out the cold.
A story that just gets retold.
[Bridge]
All that weight.
I was here before the steel gate.
I'll be here after you're gone.
[Outro]
Just a name scratched out.
Just dust.
About Bill Wexler
Bill Wexler builds things. By day, he works as a carpenter in Gary, Indiana, the city where he was born and raised. By night, he builds songs from the quiet, ordinary moments of his life: the hum of a freight train, the weight of a toolbox, the challenge of raising his teenage daughter, Maya. He had Maya when he was 18, and his minimalist soul music is a plainspoken chronicle of a decade spent…
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