Lyrics
The surveyors left their orange tape on my rail
Third week of the thaw, and the creosote smells stale
Their new concrete footings are a scar on the clay
They don't know the stress-load I carry every day.
[Chorus]
I'm the tension member, I'm the heartwood spine
I hold the grain of every single goddamn line
You drew in the dust here, you scratched in my pine.
[Verse 2]
I remember your sneakers dangling over the creek
The August air was so heavy you could barely speak
"Bet you can't touch the girder," was the dare in the heat
I felt the shock in my timbers from the soles of your feet.
[Chorus]
I'm the tension member, I'm the heartwood spine
I hold the grain of every single goddamn line
You drew in the dust here, you scratched in my pine.
[Bridge]
My joinery is failing, the dovetails pull apart
But a thing built with purpose still has a damn heart.
[Outro]
Let the new road come.
I'm not done.
About Keaton Fields
Keaton Fields spent a decade in a Halifax workshop building custom furniture, guided by the nail-less Japanese joinery his luthier father taught him. After a long-term relationship collapsed under the weight of his obsession, he sold his tools and started writing songs on a guitar his father built. His music carries a carpenter's precision, examining the structural integrity of love and memory…
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