Lyrics
The screen door's latch is rusted shut from the Johnson County rain
And I practice the words for your ghost on the porch swing again
I map the lines your boots will walk right up this gravel drive
Rehearsing how I'll keep the world I stitched for us alive
[Chorus]
'Cause I measure twice before I cut a single thing away
And I ain't got the scraps to patch the kinda mess you make
[Verse 2]
Last Tuesday, Jesse found that picture in the cedar chest
Said, "Mama, his eyes look kinda sad," and I just held my breath
The cicadas screamed a sermon from the sycamore all night
And I prayed you'd stay a memory that don't step into the light
[Bridge]
You ain't just some rip here in my dress, a seam I couldn't save
You're the shifting ground beneath the only good thing that I've made
[Outro]
The screen door's latch is rusted shut. I'm leaving it that way.
About Loretta Hayes
Loretta Hayes was supposed to leave Paintsville, Kentucky, but had her son, Jesse, at eighteen instead. Now, at twenty-eight, she pays the bills by mending clothes for her neighbors, a skill she learned from her grandmother. The songs she writes on her granddaddy’s old Gibson aren’t about fame or fortune; they’re about the exhaustion of a double shift, the ghosts of old promises, and the fierce…
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