Lyrics
The ice storm hit on a Tuesday off of Lamar Avenue
The power lines snapped like guitar strings, me and you
Trapped in the dark of that little house we'd rented
You found the prayer candles, God, the way the whole room scented.
[Chorus]
And we were living on borrowed light
Thinking that sudden quiet could make a thing right
Just living on borrowed light
A beautiful lie for a single night.
[Verse 2]
The whole world was frozen, not a siren, not a hum
You traced the frost on the glass with your thumb
"It feels like the beginning," is the thing you said to me
Didn't know you meant the beginning of a memory.
[Chorus]
And we were living on borrowed light
Thinking that sudden quiet could make a thing right
Just living on borrowed light
A beautiful lie for a single night.
[Bridge]
A houseplant in a blackout, it forgets how to grow
Some roots just can't take hold in soil that cold, you know?
That warmth wasn't ours, it was just a dying wick.
[Outro]
Just borrowed light.
And the dark came so quick.
About Al Greene
Al Greene's voice was born in the quiet spaces between Port-au-Prince and Memphis. He spent his first thirteen years in Tennessee as an undocumented child, learning to be invisible, a lesson that shaped his soulful, watchful music. He found his own language in the grooves of Al Green records and the logic of the gardens he now tends for a living. His songs, written on a treasured hollow-body…
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