Lyrics
The ballpoint pen from the Chatham County Annex
chain rattles against the chipped Formica.
The fluorescent hums a note that ain't on no piano,
and the air conditioning tastes like rust and Sunday school.
[Chorus]
But we hold the plumb line, you and me,
even when the system's walls ain't square.
We build our house on what they'll never see.
[Verse 2]
Your hand is a fist inside your thrift-store jacket,
I can feel the tremble starting in your knee.
He smiled, "Son, just sign your name at the X right here,"
and that word 'son' sat on my tongue like gristle.
[Chorus]
And we hold the plumb line, you and me,
even when the system's walls ain't square.
We build our house on what they'll never see.
[Bridge]
(Spoken word: warm, aged female voice over vinyl crackle)
"Now you hold your head like it’s got a crown on it. Don't let 'em see the bend in your back. That spine is yours. It ain't for them to break."
[Outro]
Holding the line.
You and me.
About Booker Fields
Booker Fields learned to sing over the drone of machinery at the Port of Savannah. The eldest of five, he dropped out of school at 16 to support his family, finding his voice in the back of a dockworker's workshop on a dusty upright piano. Now a carpenter restoring historic Southern homes, his songs are built with the same raw materials as his life: the weight of responsibility, the grace of hard…
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