Copper Scars & Corner Light (version 2)

Verse

Vacant house on Coventry, pipes still humming warm

Reggie held the flashlight, I twisted through the storm

Copper going ninety cents a pound down at the yard

Fingers wrapped in gauze, cutting through the guard

Streetlamp out there flickering, throwing shadows on the frame

Half the block asleep, other half don't know my name

Wire bit my palm clean, left a line like a river

Counted every scar the same way you'd count a sliver

Pre-Chorus

Somebody's gotta pay for the light that's still on

Somebody's gotta carry what the daylight won't own

Ask me what it's worth, I'll show you where it's drawn

Chorus

Copper scars and corner light

Neither one apologizes, neither's polite

One lives in my palm, one lives on the pole

Both of them keeping the exact same toll

Copper scars and corner light

Verse

Second run at Coventry, ceiling started leaning

Reggie stayed for one more coil, I was done with meaning

Told him drop it, told him nothing's worth the fall

He laughed it off, said money don't wait for a wall

Beam came down like thunder, dust filled up the hall

Pulled him by his collar, heard the sirens start to crawl

His leg got the scar this time, mine had already paid

Same street, different debt, same price we never made

Pre-Chorus

Somebody's gotta hold the weight when the walls come in

Somebody's gotta answer for the choice under your skin

Ask me what it's worth, I'll show you where it's been

Chorus

Copper scars and corner light

Neither one apologizes, neither's polite

One lives in my palm, one lives on the pole

Both of them keeping the exact same toll

Copper scars and corner light

Bridge

Yard owner knows my hands now, don't even weigh them twice

Says the scars tell the story better than the price

Mama saw the gauze, asked if it was worth the read

I told her every light we kept on came from what we bled

Reggie limps but he's walking, still owes me half a dime

Corner light still buzzing, still keeping perfect time

Chorus

Copper scars and corner light

Neither one apologizes, neither's polite

One lives in my palm, one lives on the pole

Both of them keeping the exact same toll

Copper scars and corner light