Lyrics
We got the same hairline crack in the same left rib,
some phantom ache from a promise they never lived.
You feel it in your jaw when the cold blows off the lake,
a generational give before the final take.
[Pre-Chorus]
And every night that freight train on the South Shore Line
screams a long, low question that was your father's, and now it's mine.
[Chorus]
We are the load-bearing wall,
standing after the wrecking ball.
[Verse 2]
Heard the foreman whisper back in '92,
"There ain't a future in this steel for boys like you."
Still smell the petcoke plant when the wind turns east,
the ghost of a paycheck, the ghost of a feast.
[Pre-Chorus]
And every night that freight train on the South Shore Line
screams a long, low question that was your father's, and now it's mine.
[Chorus]
We are the load-bearing wall,
standing after the wrecking ball.
[Bridge]
Sometimes you find the good wood, deep inside the rot.
This quiet kind of tired is the only strength we've got.
[Outro]
Still holding. Still holding it all.
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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