In “Forever Stain Blue,” Civic Hush pivots from the visible “metal sky” to the invisible enemy lurking in the “broken land.” This is a somber, heavy-hearted blues track about PFAS—the “forever chemicals” that have permeated every drop of water in the wasteland. It is a “toxic serenade” for a world that has been poisoned from the inside out.
The Invisible Legacy
Civic highlights the insidious nature of this “shadow” in the water—the fact that it has “no taste, no smell,” yet is “eatin’ at our soul.” She frames the contamination not as an accident, but as a “legacy of chemicals” hidden in factories and kept as a “secret in the glow.” Her “tremblin’ hand” and “gravelly cry” emphasize the exhaustion of a woman who knows that even if the war ends, the water will still be a “burden we must bear.”
A Warning Everywhere
The song serves as a “warning everywhere,” moving from the industrial hills to the sanctuary of the bunker. Civic’s “gravelly sigh” at the end of the track suggests that this isn’t just a song—it’s a report on a permanent condition. The “stain will never fade,” and neither will the voice of Civic Hush as she wails out against the “poison in the silence.”
FOREVER STAIN BLUE
by: Civic Hush
In the water runs a shadow silent as the night
PFAS in every drop stealin out of sight
A forever stain they call it on this broken land
Civic Hush sings low with a tremblin hand
Oh forever stain blues creepin through the stream
Poison in the silence hauntin every dream
With a gravelly cry Ill sing it loud and true
Forever stain blues for the world to rue
No taste no smell but its eatin at our soul
In the fields the rivers where the wasteland takes its toll
They hid it in the factories a secret in the glow
Civic Hush wails out where the poisoned waters flow
Oh forever stain blues creepin through the stream
Poison in the silence hauntin every dream
With a gravelly cry Ill sing it loud and true
Forever stain blues for the world to rue
Radio crackles the truth cuts through the air
A legacy of chemicals a burden we must bear
From the hills to the bunker the stain will never fade
Civic Hush keeps singin in this toxic serenade
Oh forever stain blues fade into the night
A song for the unspoken in the wastelands fight
With a gravelly sigh Ill leave it in the air
Forever stain blues a warning everywhere