Lyrics
You bought that Prairie Fire clay on a Tuesday whim.
Figured you'd learn to build a single thing that holds.
The wheel hums a low, wet C against your thumb,
and the wall collapses inward as it spins, cold.
[Chorus]
Another thrown shape for the water bucket.
You can't darn a vessel that was never whole.
Just a muddy promise, you tell yourself to chuck it.
A crooked stitch of muscle and of soul.
[Verse 2]
Your teacher down on Troost Avenue was kind.
He said, "Breathe from the gut and let it center first."
You haven't breathed that deep since you were nine,
just patching up some other body's thirst.
[Bridge]
(Beat switches)
Well, look at you, you lopsided little prayer.
You hold a crack just right, you've got a certain flair.
Maybe you're not a cup. Maybe you're just air.
[Outro]
Yeah, one good thing for the windowsill, I guess.
About Billie Halliday
Billie Halliday was raised in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, the eldest of six siblings who she sang to sleep with her grandfather’s old Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan records. She never had a childhood of her own. Now, she sings in a Kansas City jazz bar after the tourists go home, her voice carrying the humid weight of memory and the bone-deep weariness of being everyone’s anchor. These…
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