Lyrics
The automatic door sighed open just past midnight
Spilling October and a fight about a porch light.
You were their silent witness by the bags of potting soil,
Your waxy leaves a promise, wrapped in cheap department foil.
I saw the hairline crack already in the terracotta;
A prophecy I get paid not to bother.
[Chorus]
Oh, Ficus Lyrata,
Did they give you a good home?
Or just another pot of that bad, bad loam.
[Verse 2]
He paid in cash, his thumb tracing the rim.
She said, "'It just needs sun,' like the problem wasn't him.
The whole damn place smelled of chlorinated water and regret,
A kind of hopeful wager I know they haven't won yet.
I helped them load you in a car that smelled of stale complaint,
A brand new patron saint for things that ain't.
[Chorus]
Oh, Ficus Lyrata,
Did they give you a good home?
Or just another pot of that bad, bad loam.
[Bridge]
May your roots find purchase in the silence after the slam.
May you learn to drink the quiet and survive the killing frost.
[Chorus]
Oh, Ficus Lyrata,
Did they give you a good home?
Or just another pot of that bad, bad loam.
[Outro]
The door sighs shut again.
And the night is ours to keep.
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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