Lyrics
The 405 sound wall, two past three in July.
Heat shivers off the asphalt, a slow, shimmering lie.
And there, in the dust, a green explosion, a riot.
Smell of licorice and diesel, impossibly quiet.
[Chorus]
This is my joy, a weed in the wire.
A stubborn green note, holding the wire.
[Verse 2]
Mouthpiece tastes like metal, just like it did then.
He’d tap on the glass, "Just a weed," he said, "See it again?"
A root that will ruin the order of things.
I never understood the dull song he sings.
[Bridge]
A crack in the logic.
A flaw in the stone.
[Chorus]
This is my joy, a weed in the wire.
A stubborn green note, holding the wire.
[Outro]
(whispered, layered vocal)
Grow where you're not wanted.
Grow anyway.
About Chet Beaker
Chet Beaker was raised in a Sawtelle apartment to the sound of his father's trumpet—a technically perfect, emotionally distant echo of the West Coast jazz scene. He inherited the horn but found his own voice in the quiet spaces his father's music never allowed. Now, he uses that trumpet and a hushed, half-whispered vocal to write songs about his Japanese-American home, unspoken family histories…
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