Lyrics
The Rothko room on floor four is a perfect red gate
2:17 on a Tuesday, and I’m functionally late
For a life I was building. Over the climate control's hum
I watch a security guard watch the dust motes become
Something sacred and fleeting, a wabi-sabi kind of grace.
[Chorus]
And the red starts to breathe from the wall
A zoning variance after all
A permit to build where I thought I would fall
[Verse 2]
You said my floor plan was spartan, all right angles and bone
I’m still mapping the grid lines from Kyoto to home
The G train turnstile's an anticlimax every time
And the guard clears his throat, says, "Sir, it's just pigment and lime"
But he doesn't see how the structural load has just grown.
[Chorus]
And the red starts to breathe from the wall
A zoning variance after all
A permit to build where I thought I would fall
[Bridge]
'Cause it's not non-attachment if you never connect
Just a vacant lot where the blueprints got wrecked.
[Outro]
A zoning variance
After all.
About Fielding Bell
After spending five years in a Zen monastery in Kyoto, Fielding Bell returned to the world and landed in a tiny apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He works part-time in a rare bookstore to pay rent. His songs, composed on a pawn-shop Ibanez guitar, are sharp, rhythmic field notes from a silent man learning to navigate the loudest city on Earth.
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