[Intro - Both] Second helpings the room gets honest when the first rush is gone [Verse 1 - Female rap] The loud part ended and the plates came back around Second helpings is a different kind of sound less performing, more passing, more I actually want this I said yes to the potatoes like a small thesis I am staying. I am full and I still want more not because I am hungry. Because the door to this table opened and I am not done being in it Second helpings is the holiday without the spin of first impressions. Gravy on a roll I did not bake His mama asked if I wanted pie for later. I said I would take whatever they were offering. That is new for me I usually leave before the second cup of tea Second helpings. Extra chair that does not feel extra I can see next year from here. I will not lecture myself out of it. I take the second scoop and I let the afternoon sit on the stoop of a feeling I am finally willing to name [Pre-Chorus - Female sung] First plate was manners second plate is true I came in careful I am leaving through the front door slower [Verse 2 - Male country] I always liked the second hour better than the first When the carving is done and the hunger turns to thirst for coffee and leftover stories and a chair that leans Second helpings is the part nobody screens for company. She said yes to more and I felt the room accept her in a way that does not need a broom of small talk anymore. She belongs in the steam rising off a plate she did not have to dream her way onto. I piled her extra like a promise Second helpings. That is the honest version of a holiday. Not the photo. Not the prayer said too fast. The second plate and the extra chair and a girl who used to think she had to earn the food eating like she is allowed. That is good That is the whole point of asking her to come [Pre-Chorus - Male sung] First plate was welcome second plate is stay I have been waiting for a day like today to feel finished [Chorus - Both] Second helpings more than we needed and still we said yes like the table pleaded Second helpings gravy on the proof that we are not guests we are part of the roof Second helpings afternoon going gold If the year is a hunger this is how you hold Second helpings I will take the extra I will take the chair I will take you there [Verse 3 - Female rap] I used to treat fullness like a thing I should hide Leave a little on the plate, leave a little of my side of the story out so I could still look light Second helpings told that girl goodnight I want the pie. I want the second story about his dad I want the quiet after the uncles have had their last argument and the TV is just noise Second helpings is a grown kind of joy that does not need a costume or a clever line I can sit here. I can take my time I can love a man and a room and a second spoon without writing an essay. Let the afternoon do what afternoons do when nobody is rushing Second helpings. That is the crushing of every exit plan I packed in my bag [Verse 4 - Male country] I walked her plate back and I filled it without asking She laughed and said I was doing too much. I was basking in the right to do too much for somebody who stayed through the rolls and the game and the fire we made last night in the yard. Second helpings is the seal on a season that started when August gave out for real I want her for the leftovers tomorrow at noon I want her for the ride home under a thin moon Second helpings. Say it. Mean the food and the life I mean both. I mean her. I mean this kind of knife that cuts a holiday open and finds something sweet still warm in the middle. Sit down. Eat [Chorus - Both, bigger] Second helpings more than we needed and still we said yes like the table pleaded Second helpings gravy on the proof that we are not guests we are part of the roof Second helpings afternoon going gold If the year is a hunger this is how you hold Second helpings I will take the extra I will take the chair I will take you there [Bridge - Trade then Both] [Female] One more spoon [Male] One more stay [Female] One more hour [Male] One more day [Both] Second helpings is the holiday's true name not the first plate the one you claim [Verse 5 - Trade] [Female] Tell me there will be plates for me when this comes around [Male] Tell me you will be hungry for this same sound [Female] Second helpings—say we get to have more [Male] We get more. We take more. That is what it is for [Final Chorus - Both, loudest] Second helpings more than we needed and still we said yes like the table pleaded Second helpings gravy on the proof that we are not guests we are part of the roof Second helpings afternoon going gold If the year is a hunger this is how you hold Second helpings I will take the extra I will take the chair I will take you there [Outro - Both] Plates not empty chairs not stacked second helpings we are coming back
