Signal Breathing Through the Storm

[Intro] [High guitar harmonic, low chug cuts on beat four] [Two clipped palm-muted stabs] [Drums enter, riff cycles] [Shouted vocal enters] [Verse 1] You sent me up the grain bin ladder With a wrench and a headlamp strapped tight The conveyor bearing locked under load And the north wind bit through my gloves Ice sealed each rung behind my boots The handrail turned white as chalk I found that bolt by feel alone While the whole steel tower talked [Chorus] Hold fast, hold fast, don’t let it seize I’m turning blind in the cutting freeze One more quarter, one more breath Keep that belt alive beneath me [Verse 2] The foreman’s voice came thin from below “Storm cell’s minutes out—get down!” But the shaft was packed with stubborn grain And the bearing wouldn’t turn I braced my knee against the frame Worked the wrench a tooth at a time Then felt the seized wheel give at last As the ladder glazed with ice [Chorus] Hold fast, hold fast, don’t let it seize I’m turning blind in the cutting freeze One more quarter, one more breath Keep that belt alive beneath me [Guitar solo] [Instrumental: aggressive melodic electric guitar solo over cycling riff] [Chorus] Hold fast, hold fast, don’t let it seize I’m turning blind in the cutting freeze One more quarter, one more breath Keep that belt alive beneath me [Outro] The belt rolls on; i climb back down Ice breaks loose against the ground