Rusted Threads

[Intro]
[Verse]
Two a.m. in the shop
Wait for the rain to stop
Fluorescent light flickers low
Nowhere else left to go
Sorting through the iron pile
Haven't slept in a long while
Rusted bolts under my thumb
Feel my fingertips go numb
[Pre-Chorus]
The oil stains the floor
I don't know what for
Just a ghost in the gears
After all of these years
[Chorus]
You taught me how to fix a break
But not the choices that I make
I left the words inside the steel
And forgot how to feel
The silence is a heavy weight
And now it's far too late
To say thank you for the light
In the middle of the night
[Verse]
Pulled a dash from a Ford
Found a ghost I ignored
A faded card in the glove
Nothing left here but love
Signed in ink that's turning gray
From a distant yesterday
"Keep your head up, kid," you wrote
Stuck a lump inside my throat
[Bridge]
Grease beneath the fingernails
Listening to your old tales
Of how a motor ought to hum
Before the winter's come
I was young and I was proud
Voices getting way too loud
Now the harmonium sighs
Underneath these empty skies
[Chorus]
You taught me how to fix a break
But not the choices that I make
I left the words inside the steel
And forgot how to feel
The silence is a heavy weight
And now it's far too late
To say thank you for the light
In the middle of the night
[Verse]
Ninety-four on the clock
Keys turning in the lock
Small town sleeps in the mist
All the chances that I missed
You were steady as a stone
Now I'm working here alone
Tracing edges of the past
Things that weren't built to last
[Post-Chorus]
Just a rusted thread
Lines I never said
In the garage light
Losing the fight
[Outro]