Lyrics
The terracotta pot from that spot on Echo Park Ave.
Still got the price sticker peeling on the bottom half.
Was the first week of April, ten years back, give or take.
You were showing me the patience that a tomato seed takes.
Your fingers in the soil, like you'd been born to it.
I was just a river kid trying not to ruin it.
[Chorus]
We were talkin' 'bout anything and everything you know
Except the taproot slow
Growing down below
[Verse 2]
I was all set to bolt, say something way too soon.
Under that hazy, chemical California moon.
Felt the words budding up, ready to break the quiet.
But you just smiled and said, "Don't pack the soil too tight."
And I pruned the thought right there, let it fall away.
Learned companion planting from you that day.
[Chorus]
We were talkin' 'bout anything and everything you know
Except the taproot slow
Growing down below
[Bridge]
Just. The. Pressure.
Of the. Fingertip.
In the. Soil.
Yeah. Right. There.
[Outro]
And now the vine climbs the wall outside the kitchen pane.
Guess some things just need a little sun, and a little rain.
About Quincy Flood
Quincy Flood grew up in Cairo, Illinois, a forgotten town where two great rivers meet. At 20, he packed his drum kit and drove west, trading the Mississippi's humid melancholy for the sun-bleached asphalt of Los Angeles. His music is the sound of that drive: deep-pocket funk grooves powered by a drummer's soul, with a falsetto that tells stories to his new California lover about a home she's…
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