Lyrics
Blue light on my face from lobby cam three
At four-seventeen, it's just God and Kaz and me
See the shine on your shoes, Italian, not from Greenbriar
You're a blueprint they approved, I'm the faulty wiring, the frequent flyer
On a night-shift patrol route, a ghost in the machine hum
Smell of ozone off the server racks and stale coffee on my tongue
You're pacing on the marble like you're measuring a fault line
We used to share a twenty-piece, now you own the whole damn skyline.
[Chorus]
We were saints on the scaffolding, holy in the dust
That was our religion, that was brother-trust
Now I'm watching you through glass, just a flicker on a feed
And I'm praying that you see me, and I'm praying that you don't succeed.
[Verse 2]
Remember summer humidity, stickin' to the MARTA seats?
Listening to Three 6, sketching kingdoms on the concrete streets?
You said 'We build this city,' scribbled on a paper map
Now your office is the penthouse, and my break room is a trap
All that rebar in our backbone, all that promise in the clay
Turned to stress fractures and silence, watched it crumble day by day
I log your entry in the book, a name I used to know by heart
I guess you finish what I couldn't, you just had a better start.
[Chorus]
We were saints on the scaffolding, holy in the dust
That was our religion, that was brother-trust
Now I'm watching you through glass, just a flicker on a feed
And I'm praying that you see me, and I'm praying that you don't succeed.
[Verse 3]
(Double-time)
You're checking on your ticker-tape, I'm checking on the static hum
Wondering if you remember the boy you used to be and what I have become
Every brick was a promise, every window was a vow
Look at you now, looking at your phone and I'm wondering how
I can be sitting in the nexus, the security-code brain
And still feel the East Point heat, still feel the coming of the rain
You're gonna make the call and get the car and disappear into the night
Just another rich man's shadow underneath the pale blue light.
[Outro]
Static on the radio.
Yeah. Logged and clear.
About Gideon Toll
Gideon Toll was raised in the shadow of the world's busiest airport in East Point, Atlanta. He works the 10pm-6am security shift in a downtown skyscraper, writing lyrics in the blue glow of security monitors. For six years, he was in love with a woman named Simone, until the pressure of night shifts and low wages broke them apart. These songs are the security logs of that collapse, built on the…
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