Lyrics
The T-handle key to the generator room is still in the junk drawer.
Next to the half-used caulk gun and Maya’s first report card.
You feel the cross-hatch grip, a cold torque in your palm.
October 2010, you were trying to play it calm.
[Chorus]
That was the night we owned the grid, baby, we drew the lines.
Just two kids and a crooked key, stealing borrowed time.
[Verse 2]
The Gary Works tower breathing rust out on the lake.
You said, "They can't see us from Broadway," for goodness sake.
We counted freight cars rumbling east on the CSX line.
A blueprint for a future that was never truly mine.
[Chorus]
That was the night we owned the grid, baby, we drew the lines.
Just two kids and a crooked key, stealing borrowed time.
[Bridge]
Some structures just aren’t built to code, the foundation’s all wrong.
You brace yourself against a memory now, ten winters long.
[Outro]
Stealing borrowed time...
We drew the lines.
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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