Lyrics
The August light stripes the green cutting mat on your drafting desk.
My floorboards test the silence after seventeen quiet weeks.
I watch you trace the hairline fissure in my plaster with your thumb,
Two bodies re-learning their own compromised geometries.
[Chorus]
Shear wall.
You brace against my frame, you break the fall.
A moment's yield, a quiet cantilevered call.
[Verse 2]
The hum from the window unit drops a half-step low.
Your shadows merge where my baseboards don't quite meet the floor.
A whisper breaks the static, "'See? Still fits,'" and then that nervous laugh.
Embarrassed tenderness hangs heavy in the door.
[Bridge]
This memory is load-bearing now.
A single point of truth inside my engineered design.
[Chorus]
Shear wall.
You brace against my frame, you break the fall.
A moment's yield, a quiet cantilevered call.
[Outro]
The dust motes settle on the T-square.
A foghorn groans from Terminal Island, clearing the air.
About Corbin Slate
Corbin Slate was supposed to design buildings. After a crisis of confidence led him to drop out of CalArts' prestigious art program, he took a soul-crushing job as a CAD drafter, spending his days drawing lines for a city he felt invisible in. From his small Long Beach apartment, surrounded by his grandfather's old drafting tools, he began writing songs in secret, using the language of…
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