Lyrics
I finally folded up a ghost today
Got the winning hand and threw the prize away
Yeah, I folded up a ghost today
Guess this empty drawer's the price I have to pay
[Verse 1]
Your faded Carhartt jacket on the Goodwill pile
Sat there on the porch quilt for the longest while
The left cuff's frayed a bit, a seam I never fixed
This whole damn house smells of you and last September's mist
[Verse 2]
Jesse's got your crooked smile and your stubborn chin
"He's all you now," my mama said, just lettin' herself in
She watched me pack the box, didn't say another word
Just the hum of the old fridge was all I heard
[Bridge]
They say I won, you're gone, and I get to stay
But every neat-creased memory just gets in the way
Of mending this torn fabric into something new
This quiet ain't the finish line I ran right through
[Chorus]
I finally folded up a ghost today
Got the winning hand and threw the prize away
Yeah, I folded up a ghost today
Guess this empty drawer's the price I have to pay
[Outro]
Yeah, the price I have to pay
Just an empty drawer today.
About Loretta Hayes
Loretta Hayes was supposed to leave Paintsville, Kentucky, but had her son, Jesse, at eighteen instead. Now, at twenty-eight, she pays the bills by mending clothes for her neighbors, a skill she learned from her grandmother. The songs she writes on her granddaddy’s old Gibson aren’t about fame or fortune; they’re about the exhaustion of a double shift, the ghosts of old promises, and the fierce…
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