Lyrics
The saw palmetto's scratching at the screen.
It's three-thirteen, and my own face looks mean
In the phone's blue light... sorry. I just thought you ought to know
The silence we grew is a bitter thing to hoe.
[Chorus]
This call is for the ghost there at the table.
This call is for the truth I wasn't able
To pry out from my teeth with a shucking knife.
This call is for the other, better life.
[Verse 2]
Your fork scraped the plate, a sound like a dragging chain.
The whole night was tackey with the threat of coming rain.
You asked, "You gonna eat that?" and that was all you said,
While a war was being fought and lost inside my head.
[Bridge]
The tide's pulling out, leaving the mud flats bare.
Just the smell of the salt and the rot hanging on the air.
[Chorus]
This call is for the ghost there at the table.
This call is for the truth I wasn't able
To pry out from my teeth with a shucking knife.
This call is for the other, better life.
[Outro]
Anyway. The moon is hung up on a power line.
…Call me when you get this. Or don't. That's fine.
About Tracy Holloway
Tracy Holloway was raised on the salt marshes of St. Helena Island, learning Gullah folk songs at her grandmother's knee. A scholarship took her to Berklee College of Music, but she dropped out after professors tried to train the 'provincial' South Carolina grit out of her voice. Now back home in Beaufort, she shucks oysters to pay off her student loans and writes songs about the people and…
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