Lyrics
My legs are four-by-fours of old-growth Oklahoma pine,
Scored with the ghost of your grandfather's snap-line.
I wear a coffee ring from 1982,
And I caught the splinters when that chisel slipped on you.
At 3:47 AM, I feel the weight of your hands,
Trying to make a straight edge out of broken plans.
[Chorus]
The grain remembers every secret that you kept,
And it holds the shape of every single tear you wept.
But the wood don't judge the hammer or the nail.
[Verse 2]
She left her mother's rocking chair, split right at the joint,
You stared at it for weeks until you missed the point.
Last Tuesday night, the Titebond smelled like letting go,
You clamped the pieces tight and said, real soft and low,
"There now. Good as new, I swear."
As if the chair or I could hear a prayer.
[Chorus]
The grain remembers every secret that you kept,
And it holds the shape of every single tear you wept.
But the wood don't judge the hammer or the nail.
[Bridge]
And I never felt a finish so carefully applied,
Not to impress a single soul you hold inside.
Just the quiet satisfaction of a line made true,
A kindness this bare, meant only for you.
[Outro]
The dust motes dance in a sliver of the moon.
The work is done. The quiet fills the room.
About Hank Wyatt
Hank Wyatt learned to play guitar in a quiet bedroom overlooking a persimmon orchard, on the Oklahoma farm his Japanese-American grandparents started after the war. He spent his childhood split between two houses, becoming a quiet observer and a student of mending things—first fences, then guitars, then people. His honky-tonk songs, written from the back rooms of Tulsa dive bars where he still…
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