A Song, A Voice Memo, and a Few Borrowed Truths
Ever since we saw Justin Clyde Williams at B Chord Live a month ago, this one hook from a unreleased song has been rattling around in our heads like loose change in an old pickup ashtray.
You know the kind. The melody slips into your bloodstream before your brain even catches up. You wake up humming it at 6:17 in the morning with coffee breath and no idea why. You only know half the words, so your mind starts writing fan fiction in the blank spaces. You go looking for the song again, but it barely exists. Just a few shaky voice memos. Twenty-second clips filmed by somebody in the crowd with a cracked phone screen and a heart full of bourbon and reverb.
Some songs arrive polished and packaged. Others wander into your life like strays. This one’s been sitting with us for weeks now, like maybe it showed up because we needed it. The way your body suddenly craves steak when it’s low on iron. The way certain hymns find you before you even realize you’ve been wandering.
And maybe that’s all a really great song ever was.
Somebody else putting words around the thing you couldn’t explain yet.
LYRICS (LISTEN TO A SNIPPET BELOW)
You gotta hold on
To whatever hope you got
If you believe in the book or not
Boy, you better pray
You get through the day
We’re a long way from tomorrow
Every breath you take is borrowed
Don’t throw it away
You better pray
Follow Justin Clyde Williams and catch a live show sometime.
He’ll be at Bird’s Nest Listening Room in Dunn on Friday, August 7th with J.D. Graham.
