Lyrics
Manny checks his hands by the glow of a Valero sign,
Left one steady on the Ford's cold wheel, right one tracing a line.
He’s three months shy of thirty, the age the maps all change,
When the limestone in a good man's bones starts to rearrange.
[Chorus]
'Cause the fault line in the blood runs true and deep,
A quiet tremor for a promise you can't keep.
But I ain't the river bed the flash flood comes to sweep,
I'm the seed that's buried, fighting in its sleep.
[Verse 2]
Last night she took his coffee cup, her fingers brushed his skin,
He felt a hum beneath the surface where the leaving might begin.
She said, "You went somewhere else, mi amor, you went somewhere I ain't."
He just watched her face get painted by the window's fading paint.
[Bridge]
He saw it in his father, that vibration in the thumb,
Fumbling with a cigarette before the words would come.
His abuela whispered once, "Es el polvo, it's the land."
A little ghost of motion you can't still with your own hand.
[Outro]
The sun hits the horizon, a fragile seam of red,
He lifts his coffee to his lips, to still the voice inside his head.
And there it is against the cup, a moth's wing in the light,
The first note of the oldest song, saying goodbye to the night.
About Townes Van Roy
Townes Van Roy was born between two worlds in Del Rio, Texas, to a Border Patrol agent father and a mother from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. He learned to speak Spanish in his grandmother’s kitchen near a specific panadería on Calle Hidalgo and learned about heartbreak when the border separated his own family. After dropping out of high school, he picked up his father’s old Yamaha nylon-string and…
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