Lyrics
The gas light on your grandpa’s Ford is screaming again.
My hands still smell like bleach from the mansion on King's Bend.
You talk about the crowd tonight, the way they leaned in close.
I count the quarters on the dash, a line of silver ghosts.
[Chorus]
This love's a pawnshop halo, honey.
It only shines when it costs money we don't have.
[Verse 2]
Your hollow-body Gibson's sleeping on our only good quilt.
You're humming something beautiful, a house you haven't built.
You trace the worn-down pattern of my palm, a map you can read.
I just feel the blister from the mop, a different kind of need.
[Spoken-Word Interlude]
(Muffled, distant male voice, filtered like a phone call)
"Baby, we just need one good break. Just one. I can feel it coming, I swear..."
[Chorus]
This love's a pawnshop halo, honey.
It only shines when it costs money we don't have.
[Bridge]
Last Tuesday, I darned the frayed cuff on your one good shirt.
Does your song know how a mended thing can hurt?
[Outro]
Yeah, that old Ford is screaming my name.
Screaming again.
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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Who is Billie Halliday?
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Pawnshop Halo is Jazz.
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