Lyrics
The last Coors Banquet coaster is holding a ghost.
A twenty-dollar Jackson, folded and lost.
The ice machine shudders a low, tired hum.
My thumb feels the grain of the paper it's from.
[Chorus]
A little bit of wrong to make a thing right.
A pocketful of candle in the deep of the night.
[Verse 2]
"The landlord's note's taped to the door," Danny said.
The words from this morning, a thrum in my head.
Another frayed edge on a month worn so thin,
Just waiting for the point of a needle to go in.
[Chorus]
A little bit of wrong to make a thing right.
A pocketful of candle in the deep of the night.
[Bridge]
The streetlamp outside throws a net on the floor.
The lock on the storeroom don't catch anymore.
[Outro]
(music fades out... 4-second pause)
(groove returns, sparse)
My coat feels a little bit heavier tonight.
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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