Lyrics
The scuff mark on the gym floor looks a little like Ohio.
Fluorescent lights are humming a hymn I used to know.
Your perfume smells like gardenias and a hint of gasoline,
a patient, single-file line of what we're supposed to mean.
[Chorus]
Oh, this house we keep, it's coming loose, a hem of fraying red.
And I'm trying to hold the stitches with the things we left unsaid.
Lord, I'm trying to hold the stitches with the things we left unsaid.
[Verse 2]
You turn and say, "God bless this place," your smile is sharp and thin.
I see my mother's face in yours and don't know where to begin.
She taught me how to mend a tear so no one sees the strain,
just fold the fabric, pull it tight, and swallow down the rain.
[Chorus]
Oh, this house we keep, it's coming loose, a hem of fraying red.
And I'm trying to hold the stitches with the things we left unsaid.
Lord, I'm trying to hold the stitches with the things we left unsaid.
[Bridge]
This paper feels so heavy, this little lead-tip pen.
Am I sewing this thing shut or tearing it open again?
[Outro]
The scuff mark on the gym floor is a state I've never seen.
A patient, single-file line for what we're supposed to mean.
About Tammy Wynne
Tammy Wynne grew up a diplomat between two worlds: her Japanese mother's quiet, incense-filled home and her Alabama shipyard father's loud, Southern-Gothic life. This split shaped her voice, a classic Countrypolitan alto that sings about mending the seams of a family and finding beauty in what's been broken. Now married to a carpenter on the Gulf Coast, she writes her heart-wrenching ballads at…
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What genre is A Hem of Red?
A Hem of Red is Country.
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