Lyrics
We saw his Chevy parked on Erie Avenue, Tuesday, past the foundry glow
The air was sharp with slag and ozone, a taste we all still know
Maria's laughing on the porch swing, she doesn't see the way we freeze
Just another quiet evening carried on the iron breeze
[Chorus]
(We're a) bearing wall of silence, hold the whole house straight
Pour another drink and smile, and seal her pretty fate
[Verse 2]
Last week he sent her roses, red as rust on a steel beam
She held one to her face and said, "'He's every Midwest dream.'"
And who are we to take a hammer to the blueprint she designed?
To point out all the stress fractures we're determined not to find
[Chorus]
(We're a) bearing wall of silence, hold the whole house straight
Pour another drink and smile, and seal her pretty fate
[Bridge]
A train horn cuts the twilight, a long and lonely sound
Some foundations aren't worth shaking, once the girders are in the ground
[Outro]
Hold it straight now...
Just for a little while...
About Phyllis Hyland
Phyllis Hyland was raised in the shadow of the steel mills of Lorain, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. At nineteen, she moved to Philadelphia to study architecture but dropped out to pursue the Philly-soul sound she'd idolized on her mother's records. Her songs are architectural structures of their own, built with a rich contralto and the raw materials of her Rust Belt past. She still keeps her…
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