Lyrics
The Sunoco sign hums a low G over the wrenches.
It's just past eight on a Tuesday, phone's cold against my cheek.
This is just a practice take for my defenses.
Rehearsing the words before I let the real me speak.
[Chorus]
You look at me like I'm already built.
Like the foundation's solid, ain't no water, ain't no silt.
You're my plumb line, baby, true and straight.
And I'm calling you for real in a minute... just you wait.
[Verse 2]
Remember last month by the river, the air thick with summer gnats?
You said, "Your hands ain't just for fixing cars and laying drywall flat."
I just grunted, but the words, they stuck like primer to the bone.
First time a man like me didn't feel so structurally alone.
[Bridge]
Okay. I'm-a hang up now. Delete this shaky sound.
But I needed to build this feeling on some solid ground.
[Outro]
(phone clicks)
...my plumb line...
(beep)
About Otis Reddick
Otis Reddick was supposed to go to trade school in Memphis. Instead, the eldest of six siblings in Clarksdale, Mississippi, he stayed home to support his family, trading his scholarship for a job at the local auto-body shop he still works at today. His voice, a raw sandpaper tenor, was honed in the late-night quiet of a garage, surrounded by tools and the ghosts of deferred dreams. These are the…
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