Lyrics
The vending machine hum at the Alameda courthouse.
Second Tuesday, Winter of '22.
They gave me your jacket, smelled like Dutch Masters and cold asphalt.
I was the only name you knew to use.
[Chorus]
So I wear the kudzu crown.
And I pruned you all the way down.
Now the quiet in this house is the only winning sound.
[Verse 2]
You said, "You always wanted to be the good one anyway."
And your phone buzzed with a name I didn't recognize.
Ababa used to say *'bussu neger'* pulling weeds from the concrete cracks.
Never knew she was talking about bloodlines.
[Chorus]
So I wear the kudzu crown.
And I pruned you all the way down.
Now the quiet in this house is the only winning sound.
[Bridge]
I keep rewinding the tape of that county call, just to hear the start.
Trying to find the beat before it all fell apart.
[Chorus]
(Key Change)
So I wear this kudzu crown!
Yeah, I pruned you all the way down!
And this quiet in my house is the only winning sound!
About Idris Veil
Idris Veil still lives in the West Oakland house his Ethiopian grandmother, Ababa, raised him in. He pays the bills working at a coffee shop just to be near the familiar smell of her home country. Every song is written late at night on a Fender Jaguar in his childhood bedroom, trying to fill a silence that’s become deafening. This is the sound of memory, lo-fi R&B filtered through Bay Area fog…
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