Lyrics
The scuff on your left boot heel under the Walgreen's awning
At 3:18 Tuesday, just as the city stops its yawning.
The way your fingers worry at the label on a Coke,
A quiet kind of current in the promises you broke.
[Chorus]
And in this halogen light, every truth gets told.
In the space between a touch, where the body goes cold.
[Verse 2]
He bought the kind of bandage that's supposed to help you breathe,
You bought the kind of quiet that you wear right on your sleeve.
"'Just the basics,' he said," his jaw a hard and tired line,
Your knuckles on the counter were a legible design.
[Chorus]
And in this halogen light, every truth gets told.
In the space between a touch, where the body goes cold.
[Bridge]
I count out the ampules, a ritual I know,
A steady kind of pressure, a necessary flow.
[Flute Solo]
[Chorus]
(Key Change Up)
And in this halogen light, every truth gets told.
In the space between a touch, where the body goes cold.
[Outro]
Just the hum from the cooler... and the automatic door... sighing.
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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