Lyrics
The sky went quiet, Elodie
The weatherman lied about the breeze
And all the birds just disappeared
Tried to graft our hope onto the fear
[Verse 1]
August heat stuck to the window screen
That Sunday I made soup joumou, slow and mean
The TV showed a map, all swirling red
Felt the whole Gulf Coast holding its breath inside my head
Your parish was a bullseye, a bad joke
My phone felt heavy as a funeral stone
[Chorus]
The sky went quiet, Elodie
The weatherman lied about the breeze
And all the birds just disappeared
Tried to graft our hope onto the fear
[Verse 2]
The line was staticky, your voice was thin
I could smell the coming rain right through the tin
You said, "Bet I could drink the storm drain dry"
I laughed so hard I almost forgot the reason why
I told you put the good plates up real high
You said the taproot's deep, this house won't fly
[Bridge]
Is this good soil, babe, or just bad news?
A plot of land we were born to lose?
[Chorus]
The sky went quiet, Elodie
The weatherman lied about the breeze
And all the birds just disappeared
Tried to graft our hope onto the fear
[Outro]
(false ending - music cuts out completely for 2-3 seconds)
(coda - music returns, stripped back to just Rhodes and a quiet, pulsing 808)
That night, the crickets in my yard went silent, too...
Just the hum of the fridge... and me... and you...
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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