Lyrics
I'm the silver welt on your third knuckle, born on a Tuesday in March.
Tonight I feel the cold from a lowball of Powers, here in this bar on Arch.
The Hammond organ's weeping through the speaker grime,
You're just tracing the water-ring, doing your time.
[Verse 2]
I remember the kitchen light, how it hummed a nervous tune.
The heat from the oven, the angry quiet of that Fishtown afternoon.
Your voice was a thread pulled too tight in the weave,
A love so fierce it wouldn't let either of you leave.
[Bridge]
Then the sound of the wedding gift china from her mother hitting the floor.
You said, "Don't you dare," and she whispered, "I can't do this anymore."
My birth was a flash of white against the pine of the kitchen door,
A crooked chalk line drawn where nothing was before.
[Outro]
Now I just gleam under the neon from the street.
A permanent crease in the memory's sheet.
About Teddy Penderly
Teddy Penderly was supposed to compose symphonies. After a fiery exit from the Curtis Institute of Music, the North Philadelphia native found his real education behind the bar of a downtown cocktail lounge. It's there, listening to the city's late-night confessions, that he crafts his lush, orchestral soul music. These songs, written on a Wurlitzer in his Fishtown basement, are for anyone who's…
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The Silver Welt is R&B / Soul.
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