Lyrics
The ghost of the Cypress Viaduct
Still kicks up dust in late July.
I can taste the phantom rebar,
An after-image in the sky.
You were the hum beneath the schoolyard, the rooftop over every sin,
The busted frequency we all grew up in.
[Chorus]
Oh, Mandela Parkway static,
You’re the feedback in my sleep.
An open circuit promise
The asphalt couldn’t keep.
[Verse 2]
Now there's just a strip of green grass
Where your second level used to be.
Ma always said, "Don't you look up, son.
Some wires ain't for you or me."
I try to map your concrete footprint, trace where all the pylons went,
But there's just a whisper of exhaust-scent.
[Bridge]
Is this how a city remembers?
A low-wave broadcast of a break?
A signal bleeding through the silence
For nostalgia’s paranoid sake.
[Outro]
Just an open circuit promise...
...the asphalt couldn't keep...
About Sly Stoney
Sly Stoney was named after a funk legend by his parents, a fact that has haunted him ever since. After dropping out of an Urban Planning program at UC Davis, he moved back to his native West Oakland with a mountain of student debt, a 1972 fuzz bass, and an oversized houseplant named Larry. His music is the sound of that decision: paranoid, joyful, deeply funky, and wrestling with the feeling of…
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