Lyrics
This little ridge of skin right on the collarbone? Yeah, I see you lookin'.
Some tourist jawsin' 'bout the tab, got his whole section shooken.
Fourth of July, two summers back, the heat was sittin' heavy.
He threw a bottle full of rail gin, my reaction wasn't ready.
Just another barfly buzzing, story I've been tellin' phony.
I wipe the counter, see his face, and know he doesn't know me.
It's just a scar, a dumb design, a line of risen tissue.
A mother-lump of battle-scars, but the battle ain't the issue.
[Chorus]
They see the keloid, they don't see the ghost in it.
Point at the surface, think they know the whole business.
Wipe it all down, but the stain got a hold on it.
Yeah, they see the keloid, they don't see the ghost in it.
[Verse 2]
(BEAT SWITCH)
The truth is stickier than floors at 3am on U Street.
You were a moth against the bulb that buzzed on Kennedy Street.
You said, "The city's eating us, Zo, it's chewing on the wiring."
We shared a smoke behind The Sump, my lungs were hot and tiring.
No bottle broke, no fist was thrown, just your hand on my shoulder.
The car that hit you on Georgia Ave just made the world feel colder.
And this little mark is where I fell, running when I heard the sound.
This ain't a trophy from a fight, it's just a piece of holy ground.
[Chorus]
They see the keloid, they don't see the ghost in it.
Point at the surface, think they know the whole business.
Wipe it all down, but the stain got a hold on it.
Yeah, they see the keloid, they don't see the ghost in it.
[Outro]
This little ridge of skin right on the collarbone?
About HEX NAIL
HEX NAIL—aka Zola Campbell—pours whiskey at The Sump, a dive bar on D.C.'s U Street corridor, until 3am. She sees the city for what it is: a collision of power and the people who serve it. She writes her lyrics on bar napkins during smoke breaks, turning overheard conversations and the sheer physical exhaustion of her work into blistering trap-rage anthems. These songs are forged in the heat of a…
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