Edgewood Candler Park

Lyrics

[Intro — instrumental only, no vocals]
[a knife scrapes and sings along a whetstone; the beat builds]
[Instrumental build — still no singing, let the groove settle in]
[Instrumental — the blade and the strings carry it alone]

[Verse 1 — vocals enter at last]
Eastside corner where the cool kids dwell,
Edgewood and Candler with a story to tell;
scrape the blade on the whetstone slow,
the edge of the city catching the glow.

[Chorus]
Edgewood, Candler, scrape and sing,
the knife on the stone is a sharpening thing;
scrape, scrape, scrape, get the edge just right,
the eastside edge in the morning light.

[Verse 2]
The Coca-Cola name on the Candler green,
the freedmen's town where the edge stays keen;
every scrape a spark on the whetstone line,
Edgewood sharpening its eastside shine.

[Chorus]
Edgewood, Candler, scrape and sing,
the knife on the stone is a sharpening thing;
scrape, scrape, scrape, get the edge just right,
the eastside edge in the morning light.

[Outro — vocals stop here]
[Instrumental — the whetstone rides out alone, no more singing]
[Long instrumental outro — the groove fades slowly all the way down to silence]