Lyrics
The parking receipt from the Highline Garage
Felt slick in my hand by the dashboard light.
2:17 AM on the second of March, Milo,
And the whole damn structure wasn't engineered right.
[Chorus]
And I gave you the truth like a piece of twisted steel.
So this is the silence, this is how winning feels.
A clean break, just a hollow sound.
[Verse 2]
I sat on your porch, the air smelled of wet concrete.
You said, "There's no way, man," and stared down at your feet.
I just laid out the facts, a cold blueprint of it all,
A hairline fracture in the load-bearing wall.
[Chorus]
And I gave you the truth like a piece of twisted steel.
So this is the silence, this is how winning feels.
A clean break, just a hollow sound.
[Bridge]
My grandfather muttered, "prawda w oczy kole."
Now your number just rings and the Monongahela is coal-black today.
[Outro]
Just a hollow sound.
About Vaughn Kiln
Vaughn Kiln was born in the shadow of Pittsburgh's defunct steel mills, and his music still carries their metallic ring. His father was an ironworker, and Vaughn’s wiry, jagged guitar lines are built on a similar logic of stress and tension. He writes songs in the basement of the row house he shares with his partner of seven years, the metalsmith Elara. These are taut, anxious anthems about…
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