Lyrics
The key for the house on Painted Bunting Way feels like a bone in my palm.
It’s not yet five, a tide-low kind of calm.
In the truck door glass, a flash of feral eyes,
A possum caught before the sun can rise.
[Chorus]
This is the vulture's tax, for sleeping in their tracks.
I scrub my own salt off their brand new maps.
[Verse 2]
The air inside smells of lemon and bleach,
Everything's perfect and just out of reach.
Last week she said, “Make it look like we were never here at all.”
A little god, waiting for my call.
[Spoken-Word Interlude]
(Grandma's voice, low as pluff mud)
"Now you watch dem, chile. Dey hands soft, but dat grip be iron. Don't let da shine blind you none."
[Bridge]
The night herons hunt in the chemical green of the lawn.
They’re picking my home clean from dusk until dawn.
[Chorus]
This is the vulture's tax, for sleeping in their tracks.
I scrub my own salt off their brand new maps.
[Outro]
The lock gives a click in the dark.
The hunt is on.
About Tracy Holloway
Tracy Holloway was raised on the salt marshes of St. Helena Island, learning Gullah folk songs at her grandmother's knee. A scholarship took her to Berklee College of Music, but she dropped out after professors tried to train the 'provincial' South Carolina grit out of her voice. Now back home in Beaufort, she shucks oysters to pay off her student loans and writes songs about the people and…
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