Lyrics
Jesse asked about the silver seam across my knuckle bone.
I was ironing his school shirt, the smell of steam and home.
I told him, "Honey, that's a stitch a careless needle made,"
A little puckered reminder not to let my focus fade.
[Chorus]
And it's the prettiest lie I ever stitched,
A story that I'm selling.
Got the quiet I was wishin' for,
But this silence keeps on yelling.
[Verse 2]
Mrs. Gable from the church saw it last August in the heat.
She said, "Child, you gotta be more careful on your feet."
I just smiled and told her all about a stubborn canning jar,
And she nodded, never looking close enough to see the scar.
[Chorus]
And it's the prettiest lie I ever stitched,
A story that I'm selling.
Got the quiet I was wishin' for,
But this silence keeps on yelling.
[Bridge]
You thought you'd backed a kitten in the corner of the kitchen,
Forgot these mountain women's hands do more than simple stitchin'.
That screen door slammed behind you for the last and final time,
And this little line of silver's the only thing you left that's mine.
[Outro]
Yeah, the prettiest lie I ever stitched.
My own damn mark. Good riddance.
About Loretta Hayes
Loretta Hayes was supposed to leave Paintsville, Kentucky, but had her son, Jesse, at eighteen instead. Now, at twenty-eight, she pays the bills by mending clothes for her neighbors, a skill she learned from her grandmother. The songs she writes on her granddaddy’s old Gibson aren’t about fame or fortune; they’re about the exhaustion of a double shift, the ghosts of old promises, and the fierce…
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