Lyrics
Your '68 Telecaster's still got that chip from King Drive.
It's two AM in March and the G string just won't stay alive.
My fingertips are screaming but the callouses won't give,
building a city on my hands just so this thing can live.
[Chorus]
And I think I finally wrote one you'd have played through twice.
Or maybe you'd just tune it, nod, and say, "That's nice."
[Verse 2]
Remember you told me, "Let the gristle have the grace"?
That was before my blood went sideways, erased the court from my space.
This fretboard's a new map, a vein I can understand,
finding a stubborn pulse here in the palm of my hand.
[Bridge]
Tonight, the melody felt like a transfusion, slow and right.
Heard your voice in the feedback, cutting through the sodium light.
[Outro]
(false ending, 4 seconds of silence)
Lena just put her head on my shoulder, said the chords feel warm.
Guess the pressure's good for something after the storm.
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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