Lyrics
The rust from the Mercer Street overpass
Stains my thumb orange the third week of August.
They say you should talk to the hole you left,
But I just trace the rip in the chain-link fence.
[Chorus]
This isn't that pretty mountain-mama grief.
This is Dominion Power, pulling volts from my teeth.
This is a knot pulled too tight for relief.
[Verse 2]
You used to spit from up here on the coal cars below,
A black diamond train stitching the county line's scar.
The kudzu's devouring the Baptist church steeple.
I guess God finally got tired of saving our people.
[Chorus]
This isn't that pretty mountain-mama grief.
This is Dominion Power, pulling volts from my teeth.
This is a knot pulled too tight for relief.
[Bridge]
"You can see the whole state line from here," you said.
Now it's just a frayed seam holding sky to the ground.
[Outro]
I'm not leaving flowers. I'm not saying your name out loud.
(Music cuts to silence for 4 seconds)
[Coda]
(whispered, close)
Just waiting for the slam of the screen door.
About Birdie Keene
Birdie Keene, the eldest of seven, grew up in a two-bedroom house in Bluefield, West Virginia, overlooking the railyard. She wrote her first songs in whispers on her grandfather's 1972 Martin D-18, the only quiet space she could find after her six younger siblings were asleep. Now, her siblings are grown and gone, but Birdie remains, working as a home health aide and documenting the echoes they…
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