Lyrics
The Polaroid from the Meisner's Trestle is amber at the edge.
You wore that K-Way jacket, the one from ninety-six.
That last week of August, you dared me to the ledge
And the cold of the iron bled right through my jeans.
[Chorus]
And the rust on the bolts had a kind of honest grain.
You were cantilevered out over the LaHave again.
[Verse 2]
There was spruce gum sticky on my fingertips.
The sound of the river rushing under the ties.
"Stop thinking about the physics of it," escaped your lips.
Just a cross-braced shadow cutting up the sky.
[Chorus]
And the rust on the bolts had a kind of honest grain.
You were cantilevered out over the LaHave again.
[Bridge]
We were a structure built to bear a single afternoon.
All the stress was tensile, holding something true.
[Outro]
I guess some things are only built to hold an hour's load.
Just for a little while, on a back-country road.
About Keaton Fields
Keaton Fields spent a decade in a Halifax workshop building custom furniture, guided by the nail-less Japanese joinery his luthier father taught him. After a long-term relationship collapsed under the weight of his obsession, he sold his tools and started writing songs on a guitar his father built. His music carries a carpenter's precision, examining the structural integrity of love and memory…
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