Lyrics
The MARTA train shivers the bungalow glass.
This Atlanta July is moving too fast.
I close my eyes and I send up a prayer
Not to God, but to the salt in the air,
to the memory of a sound I can’t find here.
[Chorus]
Sing me the brackish hymn again.
The one the marsh grass hums when the tide rolls in.
Sing me the brackish hymn again.
So I can feel that rhythm underneath my skin.
[Verse 2]
Your wedding ring sleeps in a sweetgrass coil,
Safe in the dark on Lowcountry soil.
I can still feel the heat rising from the porch wood floor,
you were braiding my hair, you whispered, "'Til forever and more.'"
Now forever's a ghost that don't visit this door.
[Chorus]
Sing me the brackish hymn again.
The one the marsh grass hums when the tide rolls in.
Sing me the brackish hymn again.
So I can feel that rhythm underneath my skin.
[Bridge]
Did the last big storm change the frequency?
Or did I leave that part of my own ear back by the sea?
(Song fades and stops completely for 3-5 seconds of silence)
[Coda]
Tonight... a cricket starts a lonely beat.
Close enough. From my window on this West End street.
About Witney Hooston
Witney Hooston was raised on St. Helena Island, learning melody from the Gullah spirituals sung on her grandmother's porch. She moved to Atlanta for love and music, building a life and career with her husband, David, before the partnership unraveled. Now, two years after their divorce, she writes and sings from a small bungalow in the West End, rediscovering her own voice. Her wedding ring is…
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