Lyrics
This Revlon lipstick, shade 525, tastes like polite damage.
The streetcar's groan from the Paseo is climbing the rain-slicked glass.
I’m practicing my smile in your grandmother’s tarnished silver,
Trying to find the face I had before I learned how to last.
[Chorus]
The things we don't say are making a pattern,
A damask of doubt I’m wearing tonight.
And oh, this heavy quiet, a fabric we can't un-sew,
It fits me just right.
[Verse 2]
You’ll ask about my day over that chipped plate from the Plaza,
And I’ll say "Fine," a word worn thin as a summer sheet.
I rehearsed a list of things to scream in the empty shower,
But all you'll hear is the tapping of my fork against the meat.
[Bridge]
It's almost seven-thirty, the whole city's holding its breath.
"Just be ready by eight," you said, and I darned another small death.
[Outro]
This silk feels like a promise I'm about to break to myself.
Just to myself.
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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