Lyrics
The kitchen clock buzzes out 7:13 in November.
Her hands are still wet from the last of the plates on the rack.
On Mercersburg Street, the old sodium arc takes a breath,
And pulls a long thread of gold through the blue-black.
[Chorus]
A hundred-watt sun for a scrap of the county.
Just one little promise the darkness can't break.
[Verse 2]
The glass feels cold on her forehead, a shock to the bone.
"That light's seen more goodbyes than the Greyhound," he'd groan.
Now it's just her and the hum from the copper wire coil,
Watching the moths patch the holes in the night's worn-out toil.
[Chorus]
A hundred-watt sun for a scrap of the county.
Just one little promise the darkness can't break.
[Bridge]
She thinks how a person could stitch their whole life to that beam,
How it holds every slammed screen door in its slow, steady dream.
[Outro]
The Mercersburg hum.
Just the Mercersburg hum.
About Birdie Keene
Birdie Keene, the eldest of seven, grew up in a two-bedroom house in Bluefield, West Virginia, overlooking the railyard. She wrote her first songs in whispers on her grandfather's 1972 Martin D-18, the only quiet space she could find after her six younger siblings were asleep. Now, her siblings are grown and gone, but Birdie remains, working as a home health aide and documenting the echoes they…
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