Lyrics
The Green Lady Lounge in August, the good ice was gone.
You traced the water beaded on my sweating glass.
Your thumb on the table kept time with a funeral song,
And I stitched my lips shut just to let the moment pass.
[Chorus]
And in that quiet
My whole body became a chapel
Kneeling for you.
[Verse 2]
My tongue was a needle, rusted and dull,
Too heavy to lift, too afraid of the pull.
You leaned close and whispered, "This tune's almost through."
And I had a whole hymnal just waiting for you.
[Chorus]
And in that quiet
My whole body became a chapel
Kneeling for you.
[Bridge]
Years later, I’m patching a tear in some cheap damask,
And all I can hear is the one thing I didn’t ask.
TAKE IT. IT'S YOURS.
[Outro]
That felted silence.
Still fits me like a glove.
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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