Lyrics
The Pendleton blanket on the back of his oak chair.
Third Tuesday of the month, stale coffee in the air.
You talk about the future, a clean alluvial plain,
but all I feel's the static of a coming desert rain.
[Chorus]
And I nod, I understand.
Got my peace here in my hand.
Yeah, I nod, I understand.
[Verse 2]
"We value your perspective," you say with that practiced poise,
but my bedrock history is just a background noise.
You smell like damp cedar, I'm still spitting ancient dust,
learning how a pressure crack can look a lot like trust.
[Chorus]
And I nod, I understand.
Got my peace here in my hand.
Yeah, I nod, I understand.
[Bridge]
This isn't a fault line, it's a canyon you can't see.
And this hardpan smile is the last piece of the west in me.
[Chorus]
And I nod, I understand.
Got my peace here in my hand.
Yeah, I nod, I understand.
[Outro]
The meeting's over.
Streetlights on the wet asphalt again.
About Kailani Cove
Kailani Cove was raised by her Apache grandmother in the New Mexico desert town of Truth or Consequences. At 19, she left for the rain-soaked anonymity of Portland, Oregon, with nothing but a bus ticket. Her songs, written on a vintage Wurlitzer her mom won in a poker game, are intimate dispatches from the space between two worlds, mapping the emotional territory of a past you can't shake and a…
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