Static Load

[Verse 1]
The bar top's sticky with the ghost of someone else's gin
It's quarter-past-three, saw your face at table nine again
Watched you trace the water ring, a perfect little O
While the house lights came up, putting on their ugly show.

[Chorus]
You're a static load on a cantilever frame
A beautiful collapse I have to watch you name
A perfect, pretty failure in the pouring rain
Yeah, you're a static load I can't sustain.

[Verse 2]
I was polishing the chrome on the tap for the eighty-sixth time
When I heard you tell him, clear as a bell across the grime
"It's just the geometry of a choice I haven't made yet"
The whole damn sentence was a blueprint for regret.

[Chorus]
You're a static load on a cantilever frame
A beautiful collapse I have to watch you name
A perfect, pretty failure in the pouring rain
Yeah, you're a static load I can't sustain.

[Bridge]
(Whispered, layered, rhythmic)
(stress...shear...failure-point...torsion...fracture...crack...)
So this is just a… look, the Ambassador is humming low
And I'm leaving you the schematics of a thing you didn't know.

[Chorus]
(Key change up to Eb major)
You're a static load on a cantilever frame
A beautiful collapse I have to watch you name
A perfect, pretty failure in the pouring rain
Yeah, you're a static load I can't sustain.

[Outro]
The machine just took my last damn quarter. Call me back.
Or don't. The line's gone dead on the track.