Lyrics
The needle's bone-white, the bullrush splits in two.
Pull the coil tighter like Grandma taught you to.
Every stitch a whisper, every row a prayer.
Sweetgrass smells of sun and brackish air.
Got the rhythm in my hands, a low and steady beat.
To keep the salt from getting in, you gotta make it neat.
[Chorus]
A perfect coil'll hold a heavy thing.
The story that you bind is the story you can sing.
[Verse 2]
My thumb is slick and tackey from the sap upon the grass.
Making something sturdy, making something that will last.
Last of August you said, "It's a secret that we keep."
Something buried in the pluff mud, down where the water's deep.
[Bridge]
One wrong weave and the whole thing comes undone.
A place to hide a shadow from the Carolina sun.
Close the circle, hide the final thread inside the lie.
[Outro]
Tide's comin' in now.
And da water's gettin' high.
About Tracy Holloway
Tracy Holloway was raised on the salt marshes of St. Helena Island, learning Gullah folk songs at her grandmother's knee. A scholarship took her to Berklee College of Music, but she dropped out after professors tried to train the 'provincial' South Carolina grit out of her voice. Now back home in Beaufort, she shucks oysters to pay off her student loans and writes songs about the people and…
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