Lyrics
(Acapella) It's 3:47...
(Music in) ...and the salt is on the sill
To keep out the ghosts from the old Frisco hill
This waiting's a low-boil, a pot I can't fill
Just listening for something that's standing dead still
[Chorus]
You serve up a sorrow, expect me to eat
Say grief is a good salt, a necessary heat
But this is just raw
[Verse 2]
Sam's asleep by the window, the floorboards are cold
Got this story inside me that's getting too old
You said, "It's just history," a fact to be told,
"Like unrendered fat, it's no good to just hold."
[Chorus]
You serve up a sorrow, expect me to eat
Say grief is a good salt, a necessary heat
But this is just raw
[Bridge]
And there's the high lonesome, a steam-whistle cry
A sharp taste of iron, a tear I let dry
It's the only damn water this house has seen all July
[Outro]
The pot is still empty
The sun's coming on
About Kara Dalton
Kara Dalton was born in the Arkansas Ozarks and never saw a reason to leave. She plays the same cracked 1950s 12-string guitar her grandfather taught her on, its sound as raw and resonant as the hollows she calls home. She and her partner Sam, a stonemason, are slowly rebuilding an old cabin by hand on a piece of land backing up to the national forest. These songs are written on the porch after…
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