Copper Wire Loyalty (version 2)

Verse

Old mill on Cutter Street, breaker box rusted shut

Reo cracked it with a screwdriver, said trust is what

Keeps the current moving when the lights don't work

Flashlight in my teeth, copper heavy in the dirt

We split the wire by the pound, not by the pain

Ounce of solder on his palm, scar like a stain

He held the ladder steady while I climbed the frame

Never asked for half, still I gave him half the same

Pre-Chorus

Tell me who stays grounded when the voltage climb

Tell me who reads sturdy when it's crunch time

Chorus

Copper don't lie, it carries what you send it

Strip it to the wire, still know who you can trust with it

Current run both ways, that's the deal we living by

Copper don't lie, copper don't lie

Verse

Scale at Danny's yard don't round up, don't round down

Forty-one cents a pound, going rate around this town

Three nights running, hands blistered, elbows raw

Reo's little brother sick, I ain't have to see it, but I saw

Split my half again, ain't a debt, just a way

Watchman's spotlight swept the lot on a Tuesday

Reo pushed me to the fence, took the long way round

Caught a scrape, not a charge, that's the sound

Of a man choosing weight over what he could've kept

Copper conducts current, some carry what they're dealt

Pre-Chorus

Tell me who stays grounded when the pressure climb

Tell me who's still standing on the far side of the line

Chorus

Copper don't lie, it carries what you send it

Strip it to the wire, still know who you can trust with it

Current run both ways, that's the deal we living by

Copper don't lie, copper don't lie

Bridge

Reo's out in Fairview now, working days, clean hands

Still calls me Sunday nights, still understands

I kept a coil of wire on my dresser like a ring

Not for the money, for the current it still bring

Some loyalty burns out, some just change their shape

Like copper going green, still holds the same escape

Chorus

Copper don't lie, it carries what you send it

Strip it to the wire, still know who you can trust with it

Current run both ways, that's the deal we living by

Copper don't lie, copper don't lie