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Chords in this song6
capo 1 — sounds a semitone higherIntro
Verse 1
Clock in at the airlock same shift different day
Suit up in a dead mans gear
They dock me double pay
Cutter in my left hand grapple on my right
A billion two in credits deep
I'm working through the night
The hull is hot and humming
and the reactors running thin
I pull apart the only thing the company ain't pinned
Chorus
Cut the line strip the steel
Sort the scrap and send it down
Another ship
Another deal
I owe my bones I owe my breath
I owe my name to the man upstairs
and every clone since death
But hand over hand and beam by beam
I'll carve my way to daylight from this billion dollar dream
What I owe
What I owe
They can own the stars but they don't own my soul
Verse 2
Mama was a cutter
Daddy was one too
Signed before they read the terms what else were they gonna do
Born into a balance sheet raised beneath the yard
Every breath a line item every heartbeat on a card
I've seen a ship crack clean in half and scatter to the black
I've watched a friend forget to clip and never float on back
Chorus
Cut the line strip the steel
Sort the scrap and send it down
Another ship
Another deal
I owe my bones I owe my breath
I owe my name to the man upstairs
and every clone since death
But hand over hand and beam by beam
I'll carve my way to daylight from this billion dollar dream
What I owe
What I owe
Bb N.C.
They can own the stars but they don't own my soul
Bridge
There's a photograph that's floating where the cabin used to be
Someone's kid someone's kitchen someone's memory
The machine don't know the difference and the manifest don't care
But I hold it for a second in the cold recycled air
They charge me for the oxygen that fills these tired lungs
They charge me for the gravity I haven't stood among
They'll print another body if this one comes apart
But somewhere in the invoice there's a line they missed my heart
Verse 3
The unions talking hopeful on a frequency they track
We whisper in the vacuum where the comms cant call us back
Every ship I open is a coffin turned to coal
But the works got a rhythm and the rhythms got a soul
So I fire the splitsaw clean
and send the nanocarbon down
And I sing this to the silence
Cause its all that makes a sound
Chorus
Cut the line strip the steel
Sort the scrap and send it down
Another ship
Another deal
I owe my bones I owe my breath
I owe my name to the man upstairs
and every clone since death
But hand over hand and beam by beam
Ill carve my way to daylight from this billion dollar dream
What I owe
What I owe
They can own the ledger own the lock own the cold
Own the dark own the dock own the debt I'm told
N.C.
But they don't own my soul
Outro
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