Lyrics
You pull that blue Maxwell House can from behind the paint thinner.
The lid is rusted shut, been back there since last winter.
You pry it open with a flathead, shake the contents on the floor.
A single brass key for a door that ain't our door no more.
[Chorus]
(He)
It's just shims and quarters in a can.
(She)
That ain't a blueprint, it ain't a plan.
(Both)
Just the bitter weight of what it was.
[Verse 2]
I see that wingnut from the Ikea crib we broke apart.
Said you'd fix it later, guess you never got the heart.
And there's the fuse you swore blew out the week Maya got sick.
Funny how you find a thing right when you're done with it.
[Chorus]
(He)
It's just shims and quarters in a can.
(She)
That ain't a blueprint, it ain't a plan.
(Both)
Just the bitter weight of what it was.
[Bridge]
(She)
"So what's the point, Bill? You gonna build a shrine with all this junk?"
(He)
I'm just trying to brace the parts of us that already sunk.
(She)
The freight train's passing, you can feel it in the concrete slab.
(He)
Some things you just can't fix.
[Outro]
You sweep it all back in the can, the sound is cold and thin.
Just another thing to box up, never look at again.
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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