Pressure Glass

[Verse 1 - close, dry vocal] There is a crack in the pressure glass running down from fair to rain Mama taps it with her wedding hand like it might answer plain

The back door knows the weather the wind knows where it gives I came home with a box of screws and the things he couldn't fix

[Pre-Chorus - held, low] Don't say storm don't say gone just hold the plate and keep the kettle on

[Chorus - restrained lift] Pressure glass tell me what stayed not what is coming not what changed There is a house with a door that won't ask how long can a family live under glass

[Verse 2 - slightly tighter] He put the latch in crooked said it only needed force thirty years of weather found the weakness at the source

Mama darns the sleeve again blue thread through the grey some repairs look honest some repairs just stay

[Pre-Chorus - more pressure] Don't say fault don't say name the rain comes in and we call it rain

[Chorus - fuller, still intimate] Pressure glass tell me what stayed not what is coming not what changed There is a house with a door that won't ask how long can a family live under glass

[Bridge - sparse, almost spoken] I set four new screws where the old wood split the wind put its shoulder down and the latch held it

[Final Chorus - small release] Pressure glass tell me what stayed not what is coming not what changed There is a house with a door that won't ask how long can a family live under glass

[Outro - quiet, unresolved] Fair in the rain rain in the fair the needle shakes but it stays there