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The Exit Elevation

Gideon Toll
Artist
Gideon Toll
Indie / Alternative3:02April 19, 2026
0:00 3:02

Influenced by The National, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The War on Drugs. Born Gwidon Opłatek to Polish factory workers in Hamtramck, Michigan, Gideon Toll was supposed to be an architect. He dropped out of college and instead began drafting musical blueprints of the Rust Belt's decay, his lyrics full of the structural language he never forgot. Now based in Chicago, his songs, built on a rumbling baritone guitar, are cinematic elegies for an industrial America, written by a man who still keeps his father's steel lunchbox on his desk.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The salt shaker at Podhalanka has a hairline crack
Like the Logan Square blue line on a paper map
You're talking 'bout your sister, the new job, the rent
I'm counting all the ceiling tiles where the grout is spent

[Pre-Chorus]
And the moment opens up, a sudden empty room
A space designed for something I'm supposed to do

[Chorus]
This is a good floor plan
This is a solid design

[Verse 2]
The steam from your borscht makes a ghost on the glass
It's Tuesday, 9:14, and the feeling will pass
You put your hand on mine, you say, "You're a million miles away."
I say, "Just admiring the load-bearing archway."

[Pre-Chorus]
And the question hangs there, a bare sixty-watt bulb
A fixture in the center of what I can't resolve

[Chorus]
This is a good floor plan
This is a solid design

[Bridge]
The blueprints for my leaving are rolled up in the trunk
Beneath a steel lunchbox, a promise that has shrunk

[Outro]
A solid design.
Yeah, a real solid design.

About Gideon Toll

Born Gwidon Opłatek to Polish factory workers in Hamtramck, Michigan, Gideon Toll was supposed to be an architect. He dropped out of college and instead began drafting musical blueprints of the Rust Belt's decay, his lyrics full of the structural language he never forgot. Now based in Chicago, his songs, built on a rumbling baritone guitar, are cinematic elegies for an industrial America, written…

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