Lyrics
The MAX train window's cold against my forehead
Four PM on a Tuesday, rain on Burnside bled
I saw her hand in his, a miter joint so clean
In the jade green light of the boba tea machine.
[Chorus]
So who do I lie to? (who do you lie to?)
The saw blade or the wood?
This silence is a knot I can't cut through for good.
[Verse 2]
Got off at 82nd, the air was sharp with pine
Pavement cracks branched out, a rhizome on the line
I thought of Leo sanding hulls, the ocean in his hair
He said, "Trust the grain, not the promise of the veneer."
[Chorus]
So who do I lie to? (who do you lie to?)
The saw blade or the wood?
This silence is a knot I can't cut through for good.
[Bridge]
And all this quiet diplomacy is just a house I built
To rot from the inside with someone else's guilt
And I can feel the timbers start to give, the pressure in the bone...
SPLINTERS!
[Outro]
Leo's name is glowing, blue light on my thumb.
The sawdust in my throat has left me numb.
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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