Lyrics
Look at the grain on this Oklahoma red oak, straight as a prayer on a Sunday morning.
My Stanley No. 4 is leaving ribbons on the floor, a quiet little warning.
She says, "It's beautiful, Hank. It's a perfect straight line."
I say, "A good joint's gotta fit so tight, you can't see the light shine."
[Chorus]
And we sand it down smooth, try to hide the mistakes,
For the coffee cup rings that the future will make.
This isn't the table, it's the finish we chose,
A coat of shellac over what nobody knows.
[Verse 2]
Look, I found that two-bedroom floorplan stuck inside your coat.
The one by the school, with the porch, the one where you wrote that note.
You said, "For when the persimmons get too heavy on the branch."
But that paper feels thinner now, don't have the same chance.
[Chorus]
And we sand it down smooth, try to hide the mistakes,
For the coffee cup rings that the future will make.
This isn't the table, it's the finish we chose,
A coat of shellac over what nobody knows.
[Bridge]
Sometimes a chisel slips, leaves a scar you can't mend.
"Is that what this is, Hank? Just a pretty loose end?"
[Outro]
Look at the dust catching light from the door...
Don't know what we're building it for.
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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