Lyrics
The clay on the wheel off Beale Street spun a muddy gray
on a Tuesday hot enough to make the asphalt pray.
He felt the slip and water make a slick and hopeless mess,
the seventh perfect failure born of nothing more or less.
[Chorus]
And then the walls held up
His hands knew the way home
This is not a prayer
This is the good red loam
[Verse 2]
He remembered Old Man Hemphill on a busted cinder block,
saying, "Son, this ain't no magic trick, this ain't some wind-up clock."
"The pressure and the patience, that's the only honest price,"
"you gotta learn to listen, you can't ask the same thing twice."
[Chorus]
And then the walls held up
His hands knew the way home
This is not a prayer
This is the good red loam
[Bridge]
Thirteen years of holding breath inside his chest,
just a quiet boy learning how to pass the test.
[Outro]
Imperfect. Fired. Permanent.
On the windowsill, catching the Memphis sun.
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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