Lyrics
The Girard Avenue Wawa light cuts a line across his jaw.
Tuesday, quarter to three, and he’s staring at a flaw
in the cracked screen of a phone held in a hand of scarred-white bone.
He’s tracing a map I’ve never known.
[Chorus]
When you carve your faith on your own skin,
what kind of holy does it let in?
[Verse 2]
My granddaddy Gussie said love’s a dovetail joint,
something you measure twice to prove a point.
This man’s devotion ain’t hewn from pine, it’s a caulked seam holding back the brine.
A promise tougher than a waterline.
[Chorus]
When you carve your faith on your own skin,
what kind of holy does it let in?
[Bridge]
He whispers, “Told you I’d be here,” a prayer against the glass.
The hum of the coffee machine is his Sunday mass.
[Outro]
The bell on the door sings him gone,
leaving just the question and the dawn.
About Barry Whyte
Barry Whyte learned piano at the knee of his grandmother, Gussie, in the Gullah Geechee heartland of coastal South Carolina. At 20, he took a one-way bus ticket to Philadelphia, seeking the sound of the city's soul tradition. His music is the conversation between those two worlds: the Lowcountry's tidal patience and Philly's concrete grit. He still works as an accompanist at a dance studio…
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