Lyrics
Lena, this balsa wood won't listen tonight.
Just wants to splinter underneath your drafting light.
[Verse 1]
It's 3 AM, just the cicadas and glue,
the whole damn porch smells like cypress and you.
My thumb's gone numb from the X-Acto blade, I swear,
trying to trace this impossible stair.
[Chorus]
And I'm working with the grain against me,
but I still see the house that this is meant to be.
This exhausted hope is the only tool I got left, baby.
[Verse 2]
Caught your reflection in the window pane,
just watching my hands in the late August rain.
You said, "Silas, it's a model, just let it go for now."
But the look on your face told me you knew, somehow.
[Chorus]
Yeah, I'm working with the grain against me,
but I still see the house that this is meant to be.
This exhausted hope is the only tool I got left, baby.
[Bridge]
What if this blueprint was always a test?
Just a beautiful drawing of a life we ain't lived yet.
[Outro]
Still trying to build it.
Still trying.
About Silas Veil
Silas Veil was raised on the Georgia coast, steeped in the Gullah Geechee traditions of his grandmother. His life, and his music, changed forever the night he met Lena, an architecture student, while playing his grandfather's 1962 Gretsch guitar in a Savannah dive bar. For eight years, their relationship has been his sole lyrical obsession, a slow-burn love story told through metaphors of…
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