Lyrics
We all saw her phone light up on the counter at the Friday fish fry
The name wasn't yours, man, we just had to look away and lie
Every brother, every cousin, holding their breath in the humid air
Felt the floor give a little, but we acted like we didn't care
[Chorus]
And this truth is a ball-peen hammer we keep passing hand to hand
We're testing the weight of it, trying to understand
This silence is a slow dance two inches from your face
And we don't wanna be the ones to knock it all out of place
[Verse 2]
The air got thick with catfish grease and that old Percy Sledge
Somebody's kids were screaming from the privet hedge
"Don't you say a thing," your brother said, and squeezed my arm too tight
So we all just nodded, swallowed hard, and stepped back into the night
[Bridge]
A house this old, you learn to live with every crooked seam
You don't go knocking out a joist just to chase a bad dream
[Outro]
Yeah, we all got the witness mark, brother
We're just waiting on your hand
About Otis Reddick
Otis Reddick was supposed to go to trade school in Memphis. Instead, the eldest of six siblings in Clarksdale, Mississippi, he stayed home to support his family, trading his scholarship for a job at the local auto-body shop he still works at today. His voice, a raw sandpaper tenor, was honed in the late-night quiet of a garage, surrounded by tools and the ghosts of deferred dreams. These are the…
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