Lyrics
Sunflower River Overpass, your concrete was warm in late July.
My hands gripped the rail, just ten knuckles and a lie
I told myself about not being afraid.
Smelled like hot tar and the muddy bottom, the sound a freight train made.
[Chorus]
When you let go of the ground
Does the sky come rushing down?
Just for a second, no weight to be found.
[Verse 2]
I can still hear David yellin', his voice cracking in the heat.
"Don't you dare come home wet," she'd say from the front seat
of that rusted-out Ford we'd have to push to start.
I was trying to fix a future by tearing a feeling apart.
[Chorus]
When you let go of the ground
Does the sky come rushing down?
Just for a second, no weight to be found.
[Bridge]
Is there still water down there?
Deep enough for a man who's forgotten the prayer?
Still cool enough to wash this grease away?
[Outro]
(Rushing down...)
Still warm in July.
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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