Lyrics
You find the receipt from the motel on Grant Street.
Tucked in the door jamb you were paid to reset.
The paper is thin, feels like a moth wing in the Tuesday heat.
Smells like her perfume, the kind you try to forget.
[Chorus]
You just measure twice, you just make the cut.
You don't brace the walls another man put up.
This ain't your foundation, this ain't your fight.
Just a plumb line lie in the afternoon light.
[Verse 2]
The nail gun hisses, a snake in the dust.
You picture Leo's face, that iron-clad trust.
You could drop a dime, make the whole damn frame splinter.
Or you could patch the hole, and fix it up for the winter.
(Spoken Interlude - Voicemail, distant, crackly)
"Hey Bill, man, you're a lifesaver. Just leave the invoice on the counter. Anna says thanks again for comin' out on such short notice. Talk soon."
[Chorus]
You just measure twice, you just make the cut.
You don't brace the walls another man put up.
This ain't your foundation, this ain't your fight.
Just a plumb line lie in the afternoon light.
[Bridge]
You remember a hair tie you found by your own mitre saw.
A black thread on the sawdust, defying some kind of law.
Some things you just fix, and some things you just let be.
[Outro]
You fold the paper, slide it into your jeans.
His face on your phone screen.
About Bill Wexler
Bill Wexler builds things. By day, he works as a carpenter in Gary, Indiana, the city where he was born and raised. By night, he builds songs from the quiet, ordinary moments of his life: the hum of a freight train, the weight of a toolbox, the challenge of raising his teenage daughter, Maya. He had Maya when he was 18, and his minimalist soul music is a plainspoken chronicle of a decade spent…
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