One Worn Shoe (demo)

from Transitory [demo album] by Leslie Hudson

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Written in 2020 before I came out as non-binary, and proof that it was rising to the surface at last. It's a whole set of exercises looking back at a past where I played a role and didn't, sifting through the memories, pulling at threads here and there and weaving them together to tell my true story.

I wore that girl's shoe out the first 40 years of my life and I don't miss it now that it's gone. I've always been liminal, a threshold creature. This song's an open door to that little kid I was, letting them know I'll be waiting when they get here.

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Well I know the doorframe
Carved by hand
Well I’ve worn the doorstep
Stone and sand
Weathered by the cross-breeze
In and through
Weathering the crossroads

Creature, come in from the wild
Twig and mud and pinecone child
Berries ripen in the wood
Don’t you think that you should?

Well I know the doorframe
Carved by hand
Well I’ve worn the doorstep
Stone and sand
Weathered by the cross-breeze
In and through
Weathering the crossroads

With one worn shoe
What am I to do?
With one worn shoe
In and out of you

Forts in trees and lengthening bones
Barefoot walks in seashore foams
Rambles of that child at play
Fill my thoughts today

Well I know the doorframe
Carved by hand
Well I’ve worn the doorstep
Stone and sand
Weathered by the cross-breeze
In and through
Weathering the crossroads

With one worn shoe
What am I to do?
With one worn shoe
In and out of you

Take the ribbons from your hair
Leave the flowers woven there
Come and find this open door
Play the girl no more

Well I know the doorframe
Carved by hand
Well I’ve worn the doorstep
Stone and sand
Weathered by the cross-breeze
In and through
Weathering the crossroads

With one worn shoe
What am I to do?
With one worn shoe
In and out of you

One worn shoe
Stepping out of you

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from Transitory [demo album], releases June 20, 2024

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Leslie Hudson Stratford, Ontario

Leslie Hudson is a Canadian singer songwriter and pianist. Their albums range from storytelling styles to bluesy bar rock to dialed-up, full-band homages to pop culture. With lyrical piano skills and a voice that cuts through the crowd, their songs dive deep into archetype and folklore, modernizing ancient voices & shining a spotlight on the shadowy paths we walk through life, myth and media. ... more

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