Lyrics
The orange glow from the U.S. Steel plant
Is a photograph I thought you’d always want.
Your number's still saved under 'Lorain Blueprints'.
Now it feels like a monument.
[Chorus]
This isn't the failure, this is just the deadwater.
We're not a ruin, we're just... under water.
[Verse 2]
Third week of October, the wind off the lake
Has that specific, cold metallic ache.
"We'll get a drink soon," that's your last reply.
A rebar promise rusting in the sky.
[Chorus]
This isn't the failure, this is just the deadwater.
We're not a ruin, we're just... under water.
[Bridge]
(Beat switches)
But what if the isobar lines on the map just changed for good?
And this quiet isn't space, it's just sawed-off wood?
[Outro]
A long-haul train calling out past the breakwater...
Deadwater.
About Phyllis Hyland
Phyllis Hyland was raised in the shadow of the steel mills of Lorain, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. At nineteen, she moved to Philadelphia to study architecture but dropped out to pursue the Philly-soul sound she'd idolized on her mother's records. Her songs are architectural structures of their own, built with a rich contralto and the raw materials of her Rust Belt past. She still keeps her…
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