Lyrics
The title came Tuesday from the Santa Fe MVD,
A clean sheet of paper with no one on it but me.
My hand shook so hard putting the key in the door,
I got the whole two-bedroom I was fighting you for.
[Chorus]
And this is the winning, it feels strangely cold,
Like a story of triumph that never gets told.
God, I hammered my prayer through the drywall and dust,
In the shape of a promise, in the shadow of us.
[Verse 2]
There's a patch on the wall where your Gibson used to lean,
The color's a shade lighter, a ghost of a scene.
You said, "'Bout time you learned to use a nail gun right,"
I guess this is the lesson He had for me tonight.
[Chorus]
And this is the winning, it feels strangely cold,
Like a story of triumph that never gets told.
God, I hammered my prayer through the drywall and dust,
In the shape of a promise, in the shadow of us.
[Bridge]
I bought a five-gallon bucket of Navajo White,
To cover the fracture lines in the hard kitchen light.
But every new coat just makes the silence gleam,
A perfect, finished, solitary dream.
[Outro]
This is the winning...
This is the...
About Selah Covenant
Selah Covenant has built, and rebuilt, her life three times over. Raised in New Mexico by a Tewa potter and an Irish stonemason, she learned faith with her hands. After three marriages—one a soft parting, one a storm, one a quiet dawn—she writes songs on the old Martin guitar her father gave her, not about fairy-tale endings, but about the beautiful, difficult work of mending what's broken. Her…
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