Lyrics
The Little Conemaugh is low for May.
You walk the breastwork at the close of day.
You trace the riprap with a welder's thumb,
Feeling the structure go devoutly numb.
[Chorus]
Oh, the holy quiet of the water held.
A perfect pressure, a load-bearing spell.
[Verse 2]
A hairline fracture in the downstream face,
Just a whisper of hydraulic grace.
"She'll hold through June," you tell the cooling sky,
The scapula of earth that cannot lie.
[Chorus]
Oh, the holy quiet of the water held.
A perfect pressure, a load-bearing spell.
[Bridge]
And you press your temple to the abutment stone,
A cold communion you have always known.
A million tons of faith behind the clay,
To wash it all, to wash it all away.
[Outro]
The water's placid in the failing light.
One more perfect, ordinary night.
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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