Lyrics
The Scajaquada Creek is breathing out its iron lung tonight
Beneath the hum of the 198's unwavering sodium light.
I mapped the fissures in the concrete where the rebar shows its teeth—
Don't you walk that narrow service ledge, don't you trust the ground beneath.
[Chorus]
I'll be the calcified ridge on your spine,
The one unbroken rib that holds the line.
You're not inheriting this particular design.
[Verse 2]
They found a shopping cart last August with its wire cage full of silt,
A kind of tetanus rosary for every promise we had built.
This whole damn town's a phantom limb, it aches before the rain,
You feel that tremor? That's a memory looking for a working vein.
[Chorus]
I'll be the calcified ridge on your spine,
The one unbroken rib that holds the line.
You're not inheriting this particular design.
[Bridge]
You asked me, "Does it get much better?" with a challah crust in hand,
And I almost choked on all the hymns you'll never understand.
[Chorus]
I'll be the calcified ridge on your spine,
The one unbroken rib that holds the line.
You're not inheriting this particular design.
[Outro]
The one unbroken rib.
Holds the line.
About Jude Beckley
Jude Beckley grew up in the shadow of Buffalo's abandoned steel mills, learning to sing from a worn-out Jeff Buckley cassette. At 22, he nearly lost his life to an overdose in the bathroom of the same rock club he'd once dreamed of playing, a moment that forced him into a raw and unglamorous sobriety. Now, five years clean, he writes cavernous, gospel-tinged rock songs on his father's old…
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