Lyrics
The last picture of Elena on his old LG
Is a low-res sunset bleeding over Seeley.
Her silhouette a promise from a different year,
Before the dust settled on everything here.
[Chorus]
He holds his thumb right over her name,
And salts the earth inside the frame.
It ain't a prayer, it ain't goodbye,
It's just a different way to lie.
[Verse 2]
The All-American Canal whispers through the wall,
A coded message just before the fall.
"This valley's a fist," she said, "and it's closing slow."
The cold glass sweats with where he cannot go.
[Chorus]
He holds his thumb right over her name,
And salts the earth inside the frame.
It ain't a prayer, it ain't goodbye,
It's just a different way to lie.
[Bridge]
One little icon, a trash can in red,
To kill the living and raise the dead.
[Outro]
He pressed delete.
He pressed delete.
About Merle Hadrian
Merle Hadrian was born in Calexico, California, the son of an Okie irrigation worker and a mother from Mexicali. He spent twenty years working the same canals as his father, writing songs on a beat-up Telecaster about the borderlands he called home. After losing his wife, he cashed in his pension to make a pilgrimage to Bakersfield and record the stories of his life, turning the dust and…
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