Lyrics
We saw you in the third booth from the left, Edgewood Avenue location.
Tracing rings on the table from the sweat on your condensation.
You were a brackish water, a quiet hurricane in a cup,
Just trying to find your bearings, just trying to keep your head up.
[Chorus]
Oh, the tide is turning, baby, we can feel it in the floor.
Singing our yellow sign gospel, you ain't that ghost no more.
Yeah, the tide is turning, honey, ain't no turning back for you.
[Verse 2]
Remember last October, the Tuesday the storm came down?
You whispered to the menu, "'Just the coffee, black for now.'"
The grief was a cloak you wore, a threadbare, heavy thing.
Tonight you left a ten-dollar tip and we heard you start to sing.
[Chorus]
Oh, the tide is turning, baby, we can feel it in the floor.
Singing our yellow sign gospel, you ain't that ghost no more.
Yeah, the tide is turning, honey, ain't no turning back for you.
[Bridge]
We plait these midnight stories in the sweetgrass of our minds.
Watched you un-braid his memory, one bitter thread at a time.
[Outro]
Scattered, smothered, covered, and whole.
Yeah, you got your soul.
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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