Lyrics
We drove the Hunting Island bridge at dawn
You named the birds like you always done
Just not the right names, not a single one
Your hand on the dash felt cool as stone
[Chorus]
They say a memory is a debt
So is it a killing to forget?
I tell myself you ain't left me yet
[Verse 2]
You asked me, "Honey, where you from?" last night
The cicadas buzzing in the porch light
I said, "Da same place, baby, hold me tight"
The tide goes out, it don't ask if it's right
[Chorus]
They say a memory is a debt
So is it a killing to forget?
I tell myself you ain't left me yet
[Bridge]
I'm shucking the bad years from their shells
Building you from stories that I tell myself
[Outro]
Just the salt cure
And the debt
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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