Rosin dust floats on humid air
Violin sings a half-prayer
Shadows stretch on brick and stone
Music claims this corner home
Fire escape catches golden light
Strings glow soft in waning white
Altos rise from memory deep
Hymns the choir could not keep
Case lies open, coins catch gleam
Notes float down like slow-motion dream
Brass mute echoes from window above
Dub bass pulses, heavy with love
Fire escape catches golden light
Strings glow soft in waning white
Altos rise from memory deep
Hymns the choir could not keep
Sweat beads on brow and polished wood
Fingers dance where only saints stood
Gibson hollowbody answers back
Leslie spins on organ track
Fire escape catches golden light
Strings glow soft in waning white
Altos rise from memory deep
Hymns the choir could not keep
Passerby drops quarter in
Grace arrives on violin
Summer dusk turns indigo
Music lifts where spirits go
Breath holds space between the notes
Sacred sound in secular boats
No sanctuary built of stone
Just iron bars and singing bone
Final bow kisses steel once more
Reverb dies on iron floor
Case snaps shut on rosin and wood
Summer night turns cool and good
Fire escape catches golden light
Strings glow soft in waning white
Altos rise from memory deep
Hymns the choir could not keep
Fire escape catches golden light
Strings glow soft in waning white
Bow rests quiet on velvet sleeve
Dusk surrenders to the eve