Lyrics
The scar above your knuckle is a pale half-moon
From a chert rock that slipped on a Tuesday afternoon.
You held it under the well pump, water cold as a fright,
Said, "Well, that's one mark that won't wash off tonight."
[Chorus]
Oh, this is the good hurt, the story in the bone,
The kind of living that you can't leave alone.
This is the good hurt, a map under the skin,
To the only place I've ever felt let in.
[Verse 2]
A jar of rusty nails on the window sill,
The new pine floorboards, smelling of the mill.
Your leather work gloves with the salt-stiffened seam,
A single cup of water from the Dogwood stream.
[Chorus]
Oh, this is the good hurt, the story in the bone,
The kind of living that you can't leave alone.
This is the good hurt, a map under the skin,
To the only place I've ever felt let in.
[Bridge]
One day this cabin will be nothing but a frame,
And a stranger here won't even know to speak our names.
But that white line on your hand will still hold true,
A memory of me building this whole life with you.
[Outro]
A pale half-moon
From a Tuesday afternoon.
About Kara Dalton
Kara Dalton was born in the Arkansas Ozarks and never saw a reason to leave. She plays the same cracked 1950s 12-string guitar her grandfather taught her on, its sound as raw and resonant as the hollows she calls home. She and her partner Sam, a stonemason, are slowly rebuilding an old cabin by hand on a piece of land backing up to the national forest. These songs are written on the porch after…
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