Lyrics
The C train shudders out of Franklin Avenue, 3:18 AM.
Sal mops the gray linoleum, does the inventory again.
Above the scratch-off carousel, a water stain from a pipe that burst in June
has a face in it, if you squint, a permanent pale moon.
[Chorus]
Our Lady of the Peeling Plaster,
turn this fifty cents into something that will last, or
just answer faster, answer faster.
[Verse 2]
A girl with a BGE logo on her jacket comes shivering through the door.
Her front door key is on a string, the kind that doesn't fit the lock no more.
She buys a single Camel Blue, a ticket called 'Triple Diamond Heat'.
"Just let the landlord miss my name," she whispers to the concrete.
[Chorus]
Our Lady of the Peeling Plaster,
turn this fifty cents into something that will last, or
just answer faster, answer faster.
[Bridge]
It’s the patron saint of rust blooms on a chain-link fence,
of a signal lost, of making almost sense.
A prayer you inherit like a landlord's bad debt.
[Chorus]
Our Lady of the Peeling Plaster,
turn this one last chance into something that will last, just
answer faster, answer faster.
[Outro]
Sal turns the sign to CLOSED.
The flickering light throws a halo on a ghost.
About Lou Reid
Lou Reid spent eleven years in the Baltimore foster care system before aging out with a bus pass and a handful of guitar chords taught to him by a longshoreman. Now based in New York City, he writes stark, literary rock songs about the city's ghosts and overlooked survivors, filtering the raw spirit of the Velvet Underground through a modern, street-level lens. His third-person narratives are…
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