Lyrics
That Polaroid from the Johnson County Fair fell out of Jesse’s baby book.
You got cotton candy snarled up in your hair, and that wild, world-burnin’ look.
I can still feel the sticky on my fingers, the cicadas’ static drone.
Before we learned to be two different singers in a town that’s only got one microphone.
[Chorus]
Darcy, where'd you tear the pattern page?
We were supposed to stay the same damn age forever.
[Verse 2]
Remember sittin’ on my porch swing, that July before you went to school?
Breath smellin’ like Sun Drop and rye, breakin’ every single small-town rule.
You said, “we’re a two-headed snake, can’t bite ourselves,” and honey, I believed in you.
Now there's a ragged edge where our lives used to meet, and not a thing that I can do.
[Bridge]
I saw your mama at the Piggly Wiggly last week.
She couldn't meet my eyes long enough to speak.
[Outro]
Just a loose strand hangin’ from the cuff.
Guess forever ain’t ever long enough.
About Loretta Hayes
Loretta Hayes was supposed to leave Paintsville, Kentucky, but had her son, Jesse, at eighteen instead. Now, at twenty-eight, she pays the bills by mending clothes for her neighbors, a skill she learned from her grandmother. The songs she writes on her granddaddy’s old Gibson aren’t about fame or fortune; they’re about the exhaustion of a double shift, the ghosts of old promises, and the fierce…
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