Lyrics
The VFW pancake sign's still taped up to the door.
It's the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
Linoleum's reflecting the fluorescent hum and more,
smells like weak coffee and a God I don't remember.
[Chorus]
And we're holding a pattern that never quite meets,
a good-citizen smile on a dead-end street.
We're pulling the thread on a civic corduroy.
[Verse 2]
Your cross-stitch flag pin's crooked on your cardigan.
You trace my name like it's a crack in the tile floor.
You looked right through me, cleared your throat and said again,
"Honey, you're in the wrong line. We've been through this before."
[Bridge]
(percussion and vocal only)
Kevin would've argued.
Sarah would've cried.
I just took the paper.
Didn't look inside.
[Outro]
The heavy gym door hisses shut like a secret.
About Birdie Keene
Birdie Keene, the eldest of seven, grew up in a two-bedroom house in Bluefield, West Virginia, overlooking the railyard. She wrote her first songs in whispers on her grandfather's 1972 Martin D-18, the only quiet space she could find after her six younger siblings were asleep. Now, her siblings are grown and gone, but Birdie remains, working as a home health aide and documenting the echoes they…
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