Lyrics
The blue recycle bin on her curb is sweating dew.
5:17, every Tuesday, like she's got something to prove.
Sits on the top step, mug held in two hands,
Watching the streetlights give up on their plans.
Humidity clinging to the porch screen door,
A stain on her concrete you can't ignore.
[Chorus]
It's a blue bin hymn for the things you throw away,
The slow, heavy cost of starting the day.
[Verse 2]
A hairline crack runs through the ceramic bird on her cup.
She traces the line but never looks up.
The petunias she planted in that window box are brown,
Thirsty for a water she ain't putting down.
Just staring at the pavement, breathing in the street,
That Memphis morning grit and the engine heat.
[Spoken Interlude]
(low-fi, like a voicemail message played on a phone)
"...said 'It's just not good soil, you know? Nothing's gonna grow here.' So I..."
[Chorus]
It's a blue bin hymn for the things you throw away,
The slow, heavy cost of starting the day.
[Bridge]
And I know that stillness, that hard-won kind of grace,
The ritual that keeps you in a borrowed place.
We all got a bin for the pieces we can't mend.
[Outro]
The hiss of the air brakes groaning at the bend.
The clang of the plastic, and she turns to go in.
About Al Greene
Al Greene's voice was born in the quiet spaces between Port-au-Prince and Memphis. He spent his first thirteen years in Tennessee as an undocumented child, learning to be invisible, a lesson that shaped his soulful, watchful music. He found his own language in the grooves of Al Green records and the logic of the gardens he now tends for a living. His songs, written on a treasured hollow-body…
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