Lyrics
(Voicemail beep)
Hey, it's me. That brass key for the '98 Regal is hangin' by the door.
Still got the scuff on the lion's head from that winter you dropped it at the corner store.
It's quarter-past-three, that Thursday in November when the lake wind just gets mean.
And I'm staring at the metal like it's some kind of long-lost sacred scene.
[Chorus]
Got the testament in my palm now, the proof that we got paid.
So why's this winning feel just like a pressure, a beautiful masquerade?
[Verse 2]
I remember the smell of that vinyl, cheap incense and Arm & Hammer.
Felt like a king just coasting the Drive, fixing my own grammar.
Thought the rumble of the engine could drown out the hum in my own blood.
Thought if I could just pay the light bill, I could command a flood.
[Spoken-word interlude]
(Sound of a filtered, distant voicemail message from years ago - Lena's voice, younger, brighter)
"Curtis, hey! I just heard— oh my god, you did it! The check cleared? You call me the second you get this, you hear me? We're celebrating. I'm so, so proud of you, babe..."
[Bridge]
That girl's hope was a slow transfusion, a future I'm still trying on.
But a tank of gas won't fix the vessel when the warning lights are always on.
[Chorus]
Got the testament in my palm now, the proof that we got paid.
So why's this winning feel just like a pressure, a beautiful masquerade?
[Outro]
Anyway... I was just looking at the keys. Call me when you get off your shift.
(Click)
About Curtis Mansfield
Curtis Mansfield was born in Bronzeville, Chicago, and never left. His plans to play basketball were permanently sidelined by a Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis at sixteen, which led him to his grandfather’s forgotten Fender guitar. Now, from the same apartment window he grew up looking out of, he writes socially-conscious soul music that chronicles the secret negotiations of the body and the sacred…
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