Lyrics
Your grandmother's jade plant on the sill facing the Dan Ryan,
I'm learning its watering schedule, a future I keep trying on.
The insulin vial's cold, a familiar pressure in my palm,
Just practicing the muscle memory for a life that isn't calm.
[Chorus]
Learning the anatomy of an echo, you see.
How the quiet gets a pulse when it's just the 'L' and me.
[Verse 2]
"Don't forget the meter," you said this Tuesday morning light,
And I mapped the hidden tremor in your voice, a cartography of fright.
I catalog the cadence, file the timbre of the sound,
For the day this Bronzeville apartment is just hollow ground.
[Chorus]
Learning the anatomy of an echo, you see.
How the quiet gets a pulse when it's just the 'L' and me.
[Bridge]
This isn't prophecy, it isn't doubt,
Just my body diagramming how to live with you without.
[Outro]
Yeah, just practicing the silence.
Measuring the space.
About Curtis Mansfield
Curtis Mansfield was born in Bronzeville, Chicago, and never left. His plans to play basketball were permanently sidelined by a Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis at sixteen, which led him to his grandfather’s forgotten Fender guitar. Now, from the same apartment window he grew up looking out of, he writes socially-conscious soul music that chronicles the secret negotiations of the body and the sacred…
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