Rack

Lyrics

[Intro]
Yeah.

[Verse 1]
A nine-sixteenths wrench hits the concrete floor
When the summer shadow falls across the open door.
The conversation stops in the afternoon heat,
Just watching the weather walk down the street.
You can't be a poet with grease on your hand,
And you can't speak plain where the neighbors stand.
Your jaw shuts tight before the sentence can start,
Trading the romance for a standard part.
So you drop your voice to a gravelly low,
And you pick a short noun that the boys all know.

[Chorus]
Just a single beat. Just a piece of wood.
Built to hold it all up exactly like it should.
No flowery speech, no velvet to attach,
Just a heavy-duty bracket and a solid catch.
Keep your eyes on the driveway, don't look back,
Just give an elbow and mutter about the rack.

[Verse 2]
It’s a long way down from the courts of the king,
When it took forty verses to mention a thing.
Now we haven't got the time for the hills and the trees,
We're just categorizing hardware, please.
If the lady turns her head and catches the tone,
You're just talking about the shelving you built at home.
It’s perfectly innocent, rigid and square,
Nothing to see but the structure there.

[Chorus]
Just a single beat. Just a piece of wood.
Built to hold it all up exactly like it should.
No flowery speech, no velvet to attach,
Just a heavy-duty bracket and a solid catch.
Keep your eyes on the driveway, don't look back,
Just give an elbow and mutter about the rack.

[Bridge]
It’s a lazy invention, a failure of grace.
A flat little word for a three-dimensional space.
But it works in a pinch when the company's mixed,
And the car in the garage is only half fixed.
A nudge in the ribs is as good as a wink,
When nobody has the vocabulary to think.

[Guitar Solo]

[Outro]
Yeah, sturdy construction.
Holds up well under pressure.
Leave the poetry in the drawer.
We just build 'em to last now.
Just staring at the shelf...
Yeah, that'll hold.