Lyrics
It's the 12:03 on a Tuesday night.
It's the first clean inch of the morning light.
You built a cathedral out of ordinary time.
[Verse 1]
The 9:02 PM freight train shaking the glass in the frame.
You trace the new scar on your palm and you whisper her name.
The 47 seconds of silence after she hangs up the phone.
The smell of sawdust and her perfume you're breathing alone.
[Chorus]
It's the 12:03 on a Tuesday night.
It's the first clean inch of the morning light.
You built a cathedral out of ordinary time.
[Verse 2]
The 6:30 AM sunrise over the Miller lagoons.
The buzz from the ballast in the shop lights humming her tunes.
She said, "You don't have to fix everything, you know."
A hairline fracture in the foundation, and you let it go.
[Chorus]
It's the 12:03 on a Tuesday night.
It's the first clean inch of the morning light.
You built a cathedral out of ordinary time.
[Bridge]
You used to measure a life in two-by-fours and debt.
Now you're counting the heartbeats you haven't lived yet.
[Outro]
Ordinary time.
You made it a shrine.
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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