Lyrics
The Zillow listing on Millvale Street has the original floors.
I'd put my drafting table where the light comes through the doors.
You'd keep the couch, I'd take the bedframe with the broken slat.
It's just the structural plan for what comes after that.
[Chorus]
"Don't you draw it up," you whisper from the dark,
"Like it's an acceptable loss, a simple geometric arc."
[Verse 2]
Your scapula's a sharp ridge underneath my palm tonight.
A single hairline fracture in the dim appliance light.
We list the assets out like salvaged rebar from a wreck.
This quiet is a girder holding up my neck.
[Chorus]
"Don't you draw it up," you whisper from the dark,
"Like it's an acceptable loss, a simple geometric arc."
[Bridge]
(Instrumental)
[Outro]
You trace the grout line on the tile with a steady hand.
Who gets the silence when this building doesn't stand?
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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