Lyrics
The Beaufort County map is pinned to the wall.
One red thumbtack where our house used to fall.
A binary star with one half gone dark.
Your coffee cup's cold, left its own little mark.
[Chorus]
This is just escape velocity, babe.
A different spin, a different gravity.
[Verse 2]
Last Tuesday's paper is still on the chair.
Your wool coat smells of salt and winter air.
"It's just a new orbit," you said on the phone.
The line went light-years long, I felt it in the bone.
[Chorus]
This is just escape velocity, babe.
A different spin, a different gravity.
[Bridge]
Some nights I trace your trajectory lines,
And pray this little world don't fall behind.
[Outro]
The thumbtack's still there.
In the air.
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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