Lyrics
The dust on Dad's Yamaha case still holds the shape of your fist.
You trace the crack in the window glass he never got around to fix.
You're talking loud, you're talking fast, about the ten years we've both missed,
And I just watch the MAX train pass and add you to a list.
[Chorus]
You call it a lie, I call it a dovetail joint.
I was just trying to hold this crooked frame to a point.
You call it weakness, I call it sanding down the grain,
Anything to stop the splintering in that November rain.
[Verse 2]
I measured twice, I cut it once, I tried to make the pieces fit.
You swung a hammer at the burls 'cause you couldn't stand the sight of it.
You said, "Someone had to feel it all," with that tremble in your jaw,
But all I've got is this fine sawdust settling on the saw.
[Chorus]
You call it a lie, I call it a dovetail joint.
I was just trying to hold this crooked frame to a point.
You call it weakness, I call it sanding down the grain,
Anything to stop the splintering in that November rain.
[Bridge]
The mortise and the tenon, the silence and the sound.
Two halves of the same blueprint scattered on the ground.
[Outro]
This crooked frame.
This crooked frame.
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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