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Night-Blooming Linen

Billie Halliday
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Billie Halliday
Jazz3:09April 29, 2026
0:00 3:09

Influenced by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Lester Young, Teddy Wilson. Billie Halliday was raised in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, the eldest of six siblings who she sang to sleep with her grandfather’s old Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan records. She never had a childhood of her own. Now, she sings in a Kansas City jazz bar after the tourists go home, her voice carrying the humid weight of memory and the bone-deep weariness of being everyone’s anchor. These songs are for the ones who are too tired to date, who mend what’s broken, and who know the quiet resentment of a love that costs too much.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Hey, it's me. The screen door's still sighing from you walking out.
Just darning this wool sock from August, thinking 'bout
How this room holds its breath when you're gone for the night.
Your glass left a ring on the sill in the pluff mud moonlight.
It's quiet. Just the hum of the icebox and the cicadas in my head.

[Chorus]
(Backing vocals: Ooooh, in the dark)
We're a night-blooming linen, a beautiful lie
(Backing vocals: Ooooh, morning light)
Fray at the edges in the morning light.

[Verse 2]
There's a tear in the armchair, the stuffing is showing.
'Don't you patch that,' you told me, 'I like the not-knowing
What's holding it up.' And you laughed, and I almost did too.
Left the scent of your bourbon and the Kansas rain on my shoes.

[Chorus]
(Backing vocals: Ooooh, in the dark)
We're a night-blooming linen, a beautiful lie
(Backing vocals: Ooooh, morning light)
Fray at the edges in the morning light.

[Bridge]
I almost asked you... no, never mind. It's late.
Just feels like I'm missing this now, while I wait.

[Outro]
Anyway. Just... the latch on the screen is loose.
...Call me.

About Billie Halliday

Billie Halliday was raised in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, the eldest of six siblings who she sang to sleep with her grandfather’s old Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan records. She never had a childhood of her own. Now, she sings in a Kansas City jazz bar after the tourists go home, her voice carrying the humid weight of memory and the bone-deep weariness of being everyone’s anchor. These…

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