Lyrics
The group chat's name is 'Tazewell County Fair Pigs'.
Been silent since the week before the funeral in May.
I scroll up past the Zillow link, the meme about the rigs,
To a picture of your thumb over the lens from that one day.
[Chorus]
I'm making a map from all the loose threads (all the loose threads)
Tying your new towns to our old dead ends (our old dead ends).
[Verse 2]
There's a pin dropped on a diner just outside of Roanoke.
The screen door's painted that specific shade of cheap motel blue.
You typed, "We should all go back there till we're broke,"
And for a second, I thought you meant it, and I did too.
[Chorus]
I'm making a map from all the loose threads (all the loose threads)
Tying your new towns to our old dead ends (our old dead ends).
[Bridge]
And I trace the frayed seams of this faded plan,
It's a patch on a hole, it's a knot in my hand.
But the fabric's worn thin from the pulling and the strain.
[Outro]
The 4:17 Norfolk Southern shakes the windowpane.
About Birdie Keene
Birdie Keene, the eldest of seven, grew up in a two-bedroom house in Bluefield, West Virginia, overlooking the railyard. She wrote her first songs in whispers on her grandfather's 1972 Martin D-18, the only quiet space she could find after her six younger siblings were asleep. Now, her siblings are grown and gone, but Birdie remains, working as a home health aide and documenting the echoes they…
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