Lyrics
Hey, it's me. Uh, listen. The salt-stain on your sleeve at Lafayette's?
Tuesday, just after ten. It's stuck in my head, I gotta confess.
You were tracing the crack in the formica, and the glass felt hot under my thumb.
And I had this whole speech worked out, but my mouth just went numb.
[Chorus]
All my words are just overgrown vines on a fence.
Trying to break through the chain-link and finally make sense.
[Verse 2]
You said, "this city's got good bones," and you laughed at the neon sign.
And for half a second there, I almost made my world yours, and your world mine.
I swear that feeling's a weed pushin' up through the concrete on Mack Avenue.
Something wild and stubborn I never planned, growing for you.
(Beat switches at 1:15 from intimate alt-R&B to an uptempo, clavinet-driven funk groove)
[Bridge]
...Anyway. Damn. Forget all that. This is dumb.
Real reason I called—you still got that spare set of keys for my brother's place? He lost the one I gave him.
[Chorus]
All my words are just overgrown vines on a fence! (Yeah!)
Trying to break through the chain-link and finally make sense!
[Outro]
(Main vocal) Just, uh… call me when you get this. Aight.
(Countermelody underneath) Didn't mean to take it back, I just don't know how to leave it out in the light.
About Stevie Wunder
Stevie Wunder was raised as the de facto parent to his six younger siblings in a small house on Detroit's East Side. He taught himself to play a beat-up clavinet in the hours after everyone else was asleep, turning the weight of familial responsibility into a sound steeped in Motown-funk and soulful resilience. His music is for anyone who's ever been the 'responsible one,' a joyful noise from the…
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