Lyrics
The taconite dust on the U.S. Steel pier tasted like rust in the wind.
You asked why I was smiling, where a smile like that begins.
Felt like the torque was perfect, every bolt finally cinched down tight.
You wake up some mornings and the world is built just right.
[Chorus]
And this is a measured mile.
We don't owe the water a thing today.
[Verse 2]
I watched them brace the hatches for the run up to Superior.
Saw Jimmy wave, he shouted, "Just a quick run, be back by Tuesday!" over the interior hum.
Twenty-nine good men on a frame of iron and need.
The cold coming off Lake Michigan felt different, you agreed.
[Chorus]
Yeah, this is a measured mile.
We don't owe the water a thing today.
[Bridge]
You build your life from what you choose not to carry.
I saw the grain in the sky that morning, decided not to hurry.
Decided my hands were better spent on wood than on frozen steel.
[Outro]
Later I heard that westbound freight horn moan, long and low.
The wind is picking up, I know.
About Bill Wexler
Bill Wexler builds things. By day, he works as a carpenter in Gary, Indiana, the city where he was born and raised. By night, he builds songs from the quiet, ordinary moments of his life: the hum of a freight train, the weight of a toolbox, the challenge of raising his teenage daughter, Maya. He had Maya when he was 18, and his minimalist soul music is a plainspoken chronicle of a decade spent…
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