Copper Line
Copper Line
*a song by Dakota Vale*
[Verse 1] I keep a copper line coiled in the dash Of a truck I never drove across a bridge I never crossed The map says home is just a word you wash In the river of wherever you got lost And I got lost so early I forgot There was a before - just the engine and the thought That something down the road is worth the wear And something in the rearview doesn't care
[Verse 2] My daddy told me copper never lies It turns green in the weather but it carries Every current you put through it, every time And I thought that was a beautiful thing To carry what you're given and turn colour in the rain And I have carried - oh I have carried Every signal from a station I can't name And turned green in all the places I became
[Chorus] I'm a copper line running down a southern road Underneath the sky that taught me how to breathe I don't need a destination, I don't need a code Just the hum of the tires and the faith underneath The faith underneath The faith underneath
[Verse 3] There's a girl I know who sleeps with the light on Not because she's scared but because she wants to see The way the dark moves when it thinks nobody's looking She told me once the dark is just a rumour That the light keeps starting, and I believed her Because I've been the light that keeps starting In a room that doesn't know it has a window yet
[Bridge] And if the line breaks - when the line breaks It doesn't stop being copper It just becomes two pieces of the same bright thing And both of them still carry Both of them still burn green in the weather Both of them still know the road Even separated Even broken Even going nowhere The copper doesn't forget
[Verse 4] So I'll keep the line coiled and I'll keep the dash warm And I'll drive past the place I've never been Because the road is long and I am longer And the copper in me doesn't need to win It just needs to carry What it carries And turn green And keep going
[Outro] Copper line Copper line Green in the weather Bright in the break Still carrying Still carrying
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