Lyrics
The Zayre sign's rust bleeds down Georgia Avenue's concrete face,
Notice went up last Tuesday, paper bleached white in its metal case.
This chain-link is new, tastes like iron and July humidity,
I'm lookin' through the diamonds at a ditch full of urban scrapheap.
We called it the creek, you remember? Tadpoles in the murky parts,
Scraped up our knees on the concrete lip, collected shopping carts.
The future is a termite with a blueprint and a blank check,
Eatin' the foundation out from under my own damn neck.
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear that low sound... that ground sound...
They bought the whole block now...
Hear that low sound... that ground sound...
Bout to wipe it all down...
[Chorus]
Yeah, the conduit hums a new song for the coming static,
Memory got an eviction, future's lookin' automatic.
They can pave the whole city, pour the gray right over the bone,
But they can't un-hear the echo that this mud calls home.
[Verse 2]
Smell of the hot tar from the roofing place, summer of '03,
Sippin' a stolen warm soda, sittin' on the culvert, you and me.
"'Bet you can't jump it,' you said, twenty feet of stagnant green,"
I landed on the other side with mud up to my shin, felt clean.
Now the survey flags are twitchin', little plastic neon ghosts,
Markin' the spot for the high-rise that'll make us all feel gross.
This ain't just dirt they're movin', this is marrow, this is bone,
This the last un-scraped-clean acre of my childhood home.
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear that low sound... that ground sound...
They bought the whole block now...
Hear that low sound... that ground sound...
Bout to wipe it all down...
[Chorus]
Yeah, the conduit hums a new song for the coming static,
Memory got an eviction, future's lookin' automatic.
They can pave the whole city, pour the gray right over the bone,
But they can't un-hear the echo that this mud calls home.
[Outro]
The first engine turns over.
Sunrise hits the teeth on the shovel.
About HEX NAIL
HEX NAIL—aka Zola Campbell—pours whiskey at The Sump, a dive bar on D.C.'s U Street corridor, until 3am. She sees the city for what it is: a collision of power and the people who serve it. She writes her lyrics on bar napkins during smoke breaks, turning overheard conversations and the sheer physical exhaustion of her work into blistering trap-rage anthems. These songs are forged in the heat of a…
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