Lyrics
We got the good dirt, the long-day sun
So tell us why this harvest feels like it ain't begun.
[Verse 1]
The August kudzu on the Folly Road sign
Was our green finish line.
We swore we'd prune the runners, cut the dead wood back,
Left the pluff mud smell on a rust-eaten track.
We wanted out from under all that Spanish moss,
Never calculated the permanent cost.
[Chorus]
We got the good dirt, the long-day sun
So tell us why this harvest feels like it ain't begun.
[Verse 2]
Your postcard from the Blue Room on 18th & Vine
Had just the address, not a single damn line.
Remember you saying, "Some of us have to bolt"?
Your voice was low then, a hundred-volt jolt.
We were companion-planted, tangled at the stem,
Now we don't even know how to mention them.
[Bridge]
They say a hard winter strengthens the root,
But our ground went fallow, and bitter is the fruit.
[Outro]
The garden's quiet now. A perfect, winning view.
About Billie Halliday
Billie Halliday was raised in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, the eldest of six siblings who she sang to sleep with her grandfather’s old Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan records. She never had a childhood of her own. Now, she sings in a Kansas City jazz bar after the tourists go home, her voice carrying the humid weight of memory and the bone-deep weariness of being everyone’s anchor. These…
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