Lyrics
Granddaddy's drawknife is cool on my palm tonight,
Shavin' down this cypress but the grain is pullin' tight.
Every curl of wood remembers somethin' you would say,
A splinter of a promise you just threw away.
[Chorus]
And I got words for you that burn like turpentine,
A fire in these hands, a hammer's reach from peace of mind.
Yeah, I got words for you I couldn't find back then,
Trapped behind my teeth, never to breathe again.
[Verse 2]
The week before the marsh grass turned that winter brown,
You said, "I'll raise the joists, you hold the bottom down."
We were gonna build a boat to cut across the sound,
But you just left the plans all scattered on the ground.
[Chorus]
And I got words for you that burn like turpentine,
A fire in these hands, a hammer's reach from peace of mind.
Yeah, I got words for you I couldn't find back then,
Trapped behind my teeth, never to breathe again.
[Bridge]
(Rhythmic breakdown: percussion and layered vocals only)
Did the water call you, brother?
(stomp-CLAP)
Was the tide that strong?
(stomp-CLAP)
Did you think about your mother?
(stomp-CLAP)
Or the rightin' of a wrong?
[Outro]
Just a hammer's reach... and the wood smells like the rain.
About Sam Crooke
Sam Crooke builds furniture by day and songs by night in his Charleston, South Carolina workshop. Raised in the Gullah Geechee tradition of the Sea Islands, his gospel-rooted soul is shaped by the sudden loss of his older brother in his teens, a silence he's been trying to fill with music ever since. His songs are like the wood he works: heavy, honest, and holding the grain of a story. Sam Crooke…
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