Lyrics
The ghosts of the Cypress Viaduct hum a low C on 7th Street.
I was born in your shadow, August of '81, to the rhythm of your concrete feet.
This prayer ain't for a god in the clouds, it's for the rebar and the rust.
A hymn for the empty air where your top deck turned to dust.
[Verse 2]
I still feel the tremor from that October afternoon in my back teeth.
Heard my grandmother on the line whisper, "The whole damn bridge is underneath."
Now there's palm trees on the Parkway where your shadow used to lie.
And the afternoon sun hits different, it forgot how to be shy.
[Bridge]
My uncle says this music's just another way to be broke.
Says I'm building castles on a fault line, a beautiful, foolish joke.
But this joy is a weapon, it's a feedback loop I choose.
It’s a busted speaker singing what we refuse to lose.
[Outro]
The new asphalt is breathing, a different kind of heat.
We're still here. Still got the beat.
About Sly Stoney
Sly Stoney was named after a funk legend by his parents, a fact that has haunted him ever since. After dropping out of an Urban Planning program at UC Davis, he moved back to his native West Oakland with a mountain of student debt, a 1972 fuzz bass, and an oversized houseplant named Larry. His music is the sound of that decision: paranoid, joyful, deeply funky, and wrestling with the feeling of…
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