Lyrics
The Zatarain's box on the stovetop is bleeding through the steam.
Tuesday, just past sundown, you're caught inside a memory.
The whole apartment smells like a roadside stand off Highway 17.
You catch your face in the kettle, man, and you try to look less mean.
[Chorus]
(Call) You got your own good hands.
(Response) *(Your own good hands)*
(Call) A boat you can build on dry land.
(Response) *(Build it on dry land)*
[Verse 2]
She's working late again, bending blueprints over some new concrete nerve.
And you're standing here, just smiling, with a patience you don't deserve.
You tell the window, "She's a master, with every line and gentle curve."
Then you hear your own damn voice and it makes your whole body swerve.
[Chorus]
(Call) You got your own good hands.
(Response) *(Your own good hands)*
(Call) A boat you can build on dry land.
(Response) *(Build it on dry land)*
[Bridge]
Gussie said it at the fish-fry, grease shinin' on her chin.
"Boy, you ain't waitin' on no high water to let the good work in."
This Philly grind is sanding hard against the goddamn grain.
But the wood is good under the strain.
[Outro]
(Spoken, with octave-lower shadow vocal)
Your own good hands.
(Beat fades, a single banjo note rings out)
About Barry Whyte
Barry Whyte learned piano at the knee of his grandmother, Gussie, in the Gullah Geechee heartland of coastal South Carolina. At 20, he took a one-way bus ticket to Philadelphia, seeking the sound of the city's soul tradition. His music is the conversation between those two worlds: the Lowcountry's tidal patience and Philly's concrete grit. He still works as an accompanist at a dance studio…
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