Lyrics
The Daughters of Mercy gym sign is peeling at the 'M'.
You're standing four cars back, watching dust motes swim in the sunbeam.
They got the fan palms roped off with that faded yellow tape,
another hundred bodies deep from the fire escape.
[Pre-Chorus]
And the heat off this asphalt starts to steal the breath,
wondering if a good seed can grow in this kind of death.
My collar's hit its water line, a darker shade of grey...
[Chorus]
But I'm holding this place for you,
a taproot pushing through.
Yeah I'm holding this place for you,
come hell or kudzu.
[Verse 2]
The woman up ahead, she's got a Fanta and a Bible.
She turns and says, "'Bout time we had us a revival."
I just nod, 'cause her kind of faith ain't mine to hold,
but we're both out here praying against the coming cold.
[Pre-Chorus]
And the man with the clipboard, he's got tired in his eyes,
giving out cheap water under these exhausted skies.
My hope's a new cutting, barely clinging to the clay...
[Chorus]
But I'm holding this place for you,
a taproot pushing through.
Yeah I'm holding this place for you,
come hell or kudzu.
[Bridge]
I hope you get to see the cassia trees ignite in the fall.
I hope my shadow on this pavement means anything at all.
[Outro]
The line moves up a foot.
Another inch of root.
About Solomon Vereen
Solomon Vereen's music is steeped in the humidity of his native Savannah, Georgia. After dropping out of art school to become a full-time caregiver for his mother, an experience that fundamentally reshaped him, he began writing songs on his grandfather's vintage Wurlitzer. He now works at a local plant nursery, and his intimate, atmospheric R&B chronicles the quiet aftermath of loss, using the…
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