Lyrics
The ice in your highball starts to gleam
like a promise in a half-remembered dream.
You trace the wet ring, a silent, sacred rite
beneath the hum of the single corner light.
[Chorus]
And I worship the space between your words,
the silence where I build my own church.
A conversation that you never speak,
a whole sermon in the way you turn your cheek.
[Verse 2]
The friction of your corduroy-cuffed sleeve
is all the gospel that I need to believe.
Then, "Just the check," you say, your voice so low and clear,
and with a whisper, you are nowhere near.
[Bridge]
I fold the receipt, a crooked stitch in the seam
of this beautiful, perfectly threadbare dream.
[Outro]
I wipe the bar down where you used to be.
Just a watermark where you drew a line for me.
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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