Lyrics
Sunday morning, May twelfth, on the sixty-hundred block
The kids drew a whole new world out in hopscotch chalk.
The air was thick with lilac from a neighbor’s thirsty yard
And you never showed your hand when you held a losing card.
[Chorus]
Oh, Osage Avenue, just brick and wire and summer heat
I think I told you I loved you with the shuffle of my feet.
[Verse 2]
Mrs. Jones from down the way was washing down her stoop.
She said, "God's in his heaven, child, you stay with your group."
The sound of a screen door slapping shut against its frame,
A quiet kind of promise that nobody had to name.
[Chorus]
Oh, Osage Avenue, just brick and wire and summer heat
I think I told you I loved you with the shuffle of my feet.
[Bridge]
Maybe it's foolish, talking to the tar and stone,
Like you were ever anything more than a loan.
[Outro]
Just a single chalk line drawn
Across the place where the morning was gone.
About Teddy Penderly
Teddy Penderly was supposed to compose symphonies. After a fiery exit from the Curtis Institute of Music, the North Philadelphia native found his real education behind the bar of a downtown cocktail lounge. It's there, listening to the city's late-night confessions, that he crafts his lush, orchestral soul music. These songs, written on a Wurlitzer in his Fishtown basement, are for anyone who's…
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