Lyrics
Tuesday's last Green Line train smells like ozone and wet wool.
Found a billfold by the heater vent, alligator-skin cool.
Thicker than a prayer book, heavy with a life.
Felt the whole train lean and shudder, holding a stranger's knife.
[Chorus]
This ain't my pulse I'm holdin'.
This ain't my blood runnin' golden in my hand.
[Verse 2]
Back under the bulb in my kitchen, the contents make their case.
Driver's license, Lincoln Park address, a soft, untroubled face.
Two blue cards, a faded picture of a kid out by the lake.
A folded bar receipt says, "Thanks for comin' back, you fake."
[Chorus]
This ain't my pulse I'm holdin'.
This ain't my blood runnin' golden in my hand.
[Bridge]
My own rent is a pressure right behind the bone.
This quiet leather witness feels like borrowed marrow, a temporary loan.
[Outro]
Just the hum of the old refrigerator.
And the weight of another man's name.
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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