Lyrics
The iron fence on your mother's house on Tifft Street.
The eminent domain of your thumb on my cheek.
The public hearing for the way I never asked.
The demolition notice taped behind the window glass.
[Chorus]
These are the setback lines, the unofficial map.
The infrastructure humming in the quiet after-clap.
[Verse 2]
The brownfield site where my old temper used to burn.
"It's just a variance," you'd say, "at every single turn."
The five-year plan for a future we never filed.
The smell of hot asphalt after the storm went wild.
[Chorus]
These are the setback lines, the unofficial map.
The infrastructure humming in the quiet after-clap.
[Bridge]
(Instrumental for 20 seconds)
And I would rezone this whole damn city in your name,
if it would keep one vacant lot from feeling shame.
[Outro]
A conditional use.
A permanent truce.
About Jude Beckley
Jude Beckley grew up in the shadow of Buffalo's abandoned steel mills, learning to sing from a worn-out Jeff Buckley cassette. At 22, he nearly lost his life to an overdose in the bathroom of the same rock club he'd once dreamed of playing, a moment that forced him into a raw and unglamorous sobriety. Now, five years clean, he writes cavernous, gospel-tinged rock songs on his father's old…
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