Lyrics
You set your Hasami cup on the unfinished pine,
Said "If you change the parts out, is the design still mine?"
Every seven years, a new body, a new face,
Are you just a stranger standing in my place?
[Chorus]
Are we the ship or the replacement planks?
A memory filed in the wrong rank?
Every cell we shed, every word we sand away
Leaves a different boat in the Yaquina Bay.
[Verse 2]
I told you, "The saw is sharp, the chalk line's stark and blue,"
"But the sawdust from the first cut always sees it through."
It settles in the finish, a fine and golden haze,
The ghost of a tree from the much younger days.
[Chorus]
Are we the ship or the replacement planks?
A memory filed in the wrong rank?
Every cell we shed, every word we sand away
Leaves a different boat in the Yaquina Bay.
[Bridge]
The MAX train stalled on the Morrison Bridge that night,
October, 2:13 AM, in the sodium light.
You said, "I think this is it," your hand felt hot on my sleeve,
Is that a promise that two strangers now believe?
[Outro]
So if I hold your hand…
Whose hand am I holding?
About Elliott Smyth
Elliott Smyth's childhood was split between two postcodes: weekdays in his mother's quiet Portland apartment, and weekends in his father's boat-building workshop on the Oregon coast. The divorce made him a quiet diplomat, an expert in the art of observation. He still writes his songs on the battered Yamaha acoustic his father gave him, turning the sawdust and silence of his past into intricate…
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