Lyrics
The last good needle from Mama's old tin
Broke on a Tuesday, at 4 AM.
This Kansas City quiet feels too loud,
Sewed up the last tear, stitched the last shroud.
My hands on the sill are pale in the light,
Never learned what to do with a finished fight.
[Chorus]
So this is the prize, this silent room,
This threadbare trophy, this empty loom.
[Verse 2]
'You're the calm in the storm,' is what they all said,
While the Lowcountry humidity lived in my head.
I darned every future, patched every past,
Made a quilt of a family built to last.
Now the warmth of the heat press is a phantom burn,
Guess it's my turn.
[Chorus]
So this is the prize, this silent room,
This threadbare trophy, this empty loom.
[Bridge]
The pattern is done, the fabric is sold,
And the story they'll tell is that I was bold.
But this ache in my shoulder is the only proof,
of a childhood spent mending the roof.
[Outro]
The mending's done.
What do I win?
About Billie Halliday
Billie Halliday was raised in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, the eldest of six siblings who she sang to sleep with her grandfather’s old Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan records. She never had a childhood of her own. Now, she sings in a Kansas City jazz bar after the tourists go home, her voice carrying the humid weight of memory and the bone-deep weariness of being everyone’s anchor. These…
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