Lyrics
The screen door spring groaned a low G sharp.
You had a Nehi grape stain on your collar, dark
Against the white cotton, worn thin at the neck.
The porch boards were sweating, the whole world a wreck.
[Chorus]
And you saw them first, a humid morse code.
You saw them stitch the dark with what they owed
To the heavy air, a slow, green spark.
[Verse 2]
That one June after the hurricane passed,
The cicadas were screaming, a noise built to last.
You whispered, "Look, they're writing your secret name."
And for a second, I didn't feel the blame.
[Chorus]
'Cause you saw them first, a humid morse code.
You saw them stitch the dark with what they owed
To the heavy air, a slow, green spark.
[Bridge]
Your hand was so small, tracing patterns I missed.
A language I've looked for on every rained-on street since.
[Outro]
A slow, green spark in the dark of my head.
Something unsaid.
About Billie Halliday
Billie Halliday was raised in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, the eldest of six siblings who she sang to sleep with her grandfather’s old Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan records. She never had a childhood of her own. Now, she sings in a Kansas City jazz bar after the tourists go home, her voice carrying the humid weight of memory and the bone-deep weariness of being everyone’s anchor. These…
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