Lyrics
The dust on my Takamine caught the street light.
4:18 AM, that Tuesday in October.
The little red lamp on the coffee pot burns.
The refrigerator hums a single, droning chord.
[Chorus]
And for ninety seconds, the static is a sermon.
For ninety seconds, I am made of solid ground.
A new layer of sediment I didn't know I was earning.
The only prayer is the absence of a sound.
[Verse 2]
The radiator ticks like a nervous system.
I trace the water ring your glass left on the wood.
A car alarm screams out on Washington Avenue.
And for the first time, it sounds misunderstood.
[Chorus]
'Cause for ninety seconds, the static is a sermon.
For ninety seconds, I am made of solid ground.
A new layer of sediment I didn't know I was earning.
The only prayer is the absence of a sound.
[Bridge]
You said, "Yeah, I forgive you. It's okay."
And the line went dead and the pressure let go.
Like a sinkhole filling up with rain in West Virginia.
Something shifts in the strata, deep and slow.
[Outro]
Ninety seconds.
Just my breath and the woodgrain of the floor.
About Verity Hollow
Verity Hollow grew up in Elkins, West Virginia, a place she carries in the chip on her front tooth and the sound of freight trains in her stark, quiet songs. She wrote her first chords on her trucker father's old Takamine guitar, a relic she brought with her to a tiny apartment in Philadelphia. Her music is a dispatch from the fault line between the two places, exploring the guilt of leaving and…
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