HYMNS 201–202 · RISEN DOUGH RECORDS

Glazed and Forgiven

1996 · Risen Dough Records · 2 tracks

Second album. Twelve tracks, longer songs, heavier dynamics. The title track features Donna's first recorded scream and Carol Ann's most celebrated double-kick passage — 32 bars at 172 BPM, described by one reviewer as "theologically load-bearing." Reviewed by a secular publication as "either the most sincere or most absurd thing we have heard this year." Gerald said it was both. The publication did not publish this clarification.

1. 01Glazed and Forgiven
2. 02Patterson Avenue
   Words

   Patterson Avenue in Winston-Salem
   Morning comes down easy on the street
   I have walked this sidewalk since my childhood
   I know every door I am about to meet
   There is a store where the sign comes on at daybreak
   There is a name printed above the door
   And the city where the first one opened in thirty-seven
   Is the city where I learned what the morning was for
   
   The heat transforms
   The timing matters
   The window closes
   Patterson Avenue
   The heat transforms
   The timing matters
   The window closes
   Patterson Avenue
   
   I work at a bakery on the west side
   Different door different sign different street
   But the oven opens at four in the morning
   And the dough comes up to meet the heat
   The glaze goes on while the bread is singing
   The window opens and the window closes
   Gerald says this is also how grace works
   I say it is also how baking works
   Both
   
   The heat transforms
   The timing matters
   The window closes
   Patterson Avenue
   The heat transforms
   The timing matters
   The window closes
   Patterson Avenue
   
   One town, two doors
   Same heat, two hands
   One city, one morning
   Both correct, both correct
   
   Sister Ada Glaze in nineteen and thirty-seven
   Brought the recipe into this town
   Set the ovens up on South Main Street
   And the smell of the glaze came rolling down
   Patterson Avenue is not the only street
   But it is the one where I learned the name
   Winston-Salem is a working city
   And the working and the worship are the same
   
   The heat transforms
   The heat transforms
   The timing matters
   The timing matters
   The window closes
   The window closes
   Patterson Avenue
   Patterson Avenue
   
   Patterson Avenue
   Patterson Avenue
   Patterson Avenue
   The window closes