Lyrics
The August sun made the MacArthur pillars sweat.
You etched your defiance in my wet cement.
Ozone smell from the third rail, a Tuesday afternoon haze.
You tuned your cheap guitar to the 5:17's low bass.
There was a fierce kind of joy in how you took up all that space.
[Chorus]
I'm the choir that you built with rebar and with sound.
I'm the anthem of your feet on this forgotten ground.
[Verse 2]
The signal started dropping out somewhere around last fall.
First it was a whisper, then it was a feedback wall.
You texted 'meet me at the spot,' but the echo was the only one who came.
So I just held the empty air and the fading of a name.
[Chorus]
I'm the choir that you built with rebar and with sound.
I'm the anthem of your feet on this forgotten ground.
[Bridge]
Last night, one of you came back and traced the letters with a thumb.
The cold in my concrete told me what you had become.
You never even looked up when the northbound train went past.
[Outro]
The choir's gone all quiet now.
The anthem's just a hum.
About Sly Stoney
Sly Stoney was named after a funk legend by his parents, a fact that has haunted him ever since. After dropping out of an Urban Planning program at UC Davis, he moved back to his native West Oakland with a mountain of student debt, a 1972 fuzz bass, and an oversized houseplant named Larry. His music is the sound of that decision: paranoid, joyful, deeply funky, and wrestling with the feeling of…
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