Lyrics
The Ben Franklin's blue necklace of lights goes dim at 5:18.
She traces the condensation on the glass, a temporary screen.
Across the river, Camden is a charcoal sketch of industry.
This new skyline is a blueprint that she's still learning how to read.
[Chorus]
This is the tensile strength, the morning-after test.
Building a love that holds its breath under duress.
[Verse 2]
The hotel air conditioner hums a low, uncertain key.
Last night's call from Lorain felt like a hundred miles of rail and scree.
"It's just a different grade of steel," she whispers to the empty chair,
"It's supposed to look lighter in this city's air."
[Chorus]
This is the tensile strength, the morning-after test.
Building a love that holds its breath under duress.
[Bridge]
And a faint horn echoes from the 30th Street rail yard tracks,
a low and hollow promise that you don't have to carry it all back.
[Outro]
Under duress...
The tensile strength.
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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