Lyrics
Voicemail dot three gee pee, timestamped last October.
The glow from the Signal Hill oil derricks paints the blinds over.
I hit play just to map the stress fractures in your tone,
A sound file saved as "Home" on a phone that isn't home.
[Chorus]
Static and your voice, a perfect cantilever.
Hanging in the silence, holding up the ether.
[Verse 2]
You’re laughing through the speaker, something 'bout the traffic on the 405.
"'Don't forget the wine,' you said, 'the cheap stuff from the Ralphs, I'll be there by five.'"
Just a simple message, never meant to be load-bearing,
Now it’s the foundation for this whole damn building I'm repairing.
[Chorus]
Static and your voice, a perfect cantilever.
Hanging in the silence, holding up the ether.
[Bridge]
A hundred sixty kilobytes, a temporary shore,
Propping up a ceiling that ain't level anymore.
[Outro]
The hiss and then your laugh. Then the click. I hit rewind.
Just a little tension cable holding up my mind.
About Corbin Slate
Corbin Slate was supposed to design buildings. After a crisis of confidence led him to drop out of CalArts' prestigious art program, he took a soul-crushing job as a CAD drafter, spending his days drawing lines for a city he felt invisible in. From his small Long Beach apartment, surrounded by his grandfather's old drafting tools, he began writing songs in secret, using the language of…
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