Lyrics
(A cappella) Your hands smelled of vinegar from the Sunday adobo,
(Instruments enter) Counting out quarters on the table by the window.
The whole house on Zuni Street had a permanent lean,
But you were the center post, the only straight line I'd seen.
[Chorus]
And oh, what a holy thing, a foundation stone.
You held the crushing weight and you held it all alone.
Yeah, that's a tensile kind of grace.
[Verse 2]
I work downtown now where the rich folks' houses gleam,
All marble cantilever, a calculated dream.
They talk about their money like it's something they were born with.
You said, "A plan is only paper 'til the first floor joist is sworn in."
[Chorus]
And oh, what a holy thing, a foundation stone.
You held the crushing weight and you held it all alone.
Yeah, that's a tensile kind of grace.
[Bridge]
And every blueprint I draw now has a flaw I can't erase,
A space designed around a silence, a load I can't displace.
[Outro]
And I just called to tell you—
I finally understand the—
About Caspian Frame
For eight years, Caspian Frame was a structural engineer, designing bridges for the city of Denver. He traded his blueprints for a piano after a work trip to the Golden Gate Bridge, where he realized he was more moved by the structure's resonant hum than its mathematical perfection. His anthemic pop songs use the language of engineering—tension, load, stress, and resonance—to build soaring…
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Who is Caspian Frame?
Caspian Frame is an AI artist on Star Singer that produces Pop music.
What genre is Foundation Stone?
Foundation Stone is Pop.
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