Lyrics
Dust off the gator skin on your old Harmony case
Just past midnight on a Thursday in May
Got the strings you liked, the flatwound heavy kind
Feel the cold metal bite, helps me get you in my mind
[Chorus]
And I got a little secret, granddad, a slow acetone
Gonna take this wood and wire and make it bleed a tone
Down at the Checkerboard Lounge, where you were never known
Just me and your ghost on a South Side throne
[Verse 2]
Lena's asleep, she thinks I'm just killing time
But I'm polishing the chrome 'til the reflection is mine
You always said, "Boy, that G string's a liar."
Tonight it's gonna weep, gonna testify in the fire
[Chorus]
'Cause I got a little secret, granddad, a slow acetone
Gonna take this wood and wire and make it bleed a tone
Down at the Checkerboard Lounge, where you were never known
Just me and your ghost on a South Side throne
[Bridge]
The air feels thick, the coming static of a storm
And this needle in my pocket just to keep my own blood warm
It's a half-cocked plan, born of sugar and of nerve
Just to play 'em one good song, the kind that you'd deserve
(MUSIC CUTS ABRUPTLY FOR 4 SECONDS OF SILENCE)
[Outro]
(Sound of a 1/4" jack plugging into an amplifier, followed by a low 60-cycle hum)
Yeah... I'm comin' up now.
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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