Lyrics
The ballpoint's chained to the desk at the county annex.
You watch your knuckles go white on the fiberglass edge.
You tell yourself: smile, keep the voice down low, don't let the torque show.
This whole damn room smells like wet paper and slow rot in the floor.
[Chorus]
This ain't a structure, it's a torsion bar.
Twisting for every new invisible scar.
You just hold the strain, 'cause that's what fathers are.
Yeah, you just hold the strain, 'cause that's what fathers are.
[Verse 2]
It's 2:15 on a Tuesday in the Gary rain.
You hear the South Shore clatter past, a mournful metal train.
The woman behind the glass says, "Sir, you're missing a signature here."
Trying to build her a future with a tool chest full of fear.
[Chorus]
This ain't a structure, it's a torsion bar.
Twisting for every new invisible scar.
You just hold the strain, 'cause that's what fathers are.
Yeah, you just hold the strain, 'cause that's what fathers are.
[Bridge]
I see Maya's face in the water-stain on the ceiling tile.
And I swear to you, wherever you are, I could burn this place with a smile.
[Outro]
Just hold the strain.
Hold the strain.
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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What genre is Torsion Bar?
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