Lyrics
The ballot scanner's green light is a nervous little vein
On the gym floor at Dulles, in November's first cold rain
The fluorescent lights all hum a single, weary note
We check the box like checking a pulse in the city's throat
[Chorus]
And we hold the pressure in our hands
This is a quiet kind of prayer
In a language you don't understand
We're still here
[Verse 2]
Old woman with her walker, young blood with the fresh J's
We're the city's stubborn circulation, counting down the days
The heat kicks on with a shudder, smells like dust and gristle
Trading stories soft as contraband beneath the official's whistle
[Chorus]
And we hold the pressure in our hands
This is a quiet kind of prayer
In a language you don't understand
We're still here
[Bridge]
Heard a sister whisper, "They think this ache is new"
Like the red line on the thermometer just broke on through
[Outro]
Still here
Still here...
About Curtis Mansfield
Curtis Mansfield was born in Bronzeville, Chicago, and never left. His plans to play basketball were permanently sidelined by a Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis at sixteen, which led him to his grandfather’s forgotten Fender guitar. Now, from the same apartment window he grew up looking out of, he writes socially-conscious soul music that chronicles the secret negotiations of the body and the sacred…
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