Lyrics
The Iron City bottle leaves a perfect ring on the wood.
You trace its condensation; I always knew you would.
There isn't a blueprint for the load-bearing quiet in this room,
Just four-oh-seven in the August afternoon.
[Chorus]
This is the part I can't tear down,
The golden geometry all over town.
A particle of light on your collarbone,
The only foundation I've ever known.
[Verse 2]
The heat off the Neville Island asphalt makes the girders sigh.
Your thumbprint on the sweating glass, a spiral stair going high.
I'm mapping every hairline fracture in the look you're giving me,
A silent inventory for the man I'm meant to be.
[Bridge]
"You ever notice," you said, a whisper on the pane,
"How dust looks like a floor plan in the light before the rain?"
[Outro]
A particle of light.
Your collarbone.
About Chris Cordel
Chris Cordel was raised in the rust-colored shadow of Pennsylvania's defunct steel mills, where his powerful singing voice was a source of shame. After his father smashed his first guitar, he left home and eventually found work as a welder, a trade that taught him about structural integrity and imperfect mends. Now, from his Pittsburgh basement, he forges soaring grunge anthems that treat the…
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