Lyrics
This chipped KC mug reads 'World's Best Dad.'
Three in the morning, the ink has gone bad.
Writing you letters I know you can't read
On the back of a notice for the sewing machine.
[Chorus]
It's a crooked stitch, this life I'm patching up.
This crooked stitch is all I've really got.
Singing your songs in another woman's key,
Guess you'd be proud, and a little bit sad for me.
[Verse 2]
Remember that August, the cicadas so loud,
The whole porch smelled of pluff mud and thunderclouds.
You were darning a sock, said, "Billie, now listen good,
'Some things ain't fixed by wishing that you could.'"
[Chorus]
It's a crooked stitch, this life I'm patching up.
This crooked stitch is all I've really got.
Singing your songs in another woman's key,
Guess you'd be proud, and a little bit sad for me.
[Bridge]
The neon from the pawn shop paints my wall
Like a mismatched button, about to fall.
Some nights the quiet's a beautiful thing,
Some nights I just pray for the telephone to ring.
[Outro]
Just another crooked stitch.
Yeah, a crooked stitch.
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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