Lyrics
You clench your jaw on the Morrison Bridge, a habit you can't break.
The molar's got a hairline fault for every word you didn't say.
It's the cold steel taste of a Phillips head bit held too long between the teeth,
The echo of a slammed workshop door you still feel underneath.
[Chorus]
Oh, the body's joinery is coming loose.
And this anger is the only truth, for the boy you couldn't be.
[Verse 2]
You were ten years old in the Astoria shop, the air was sharp with pine.
He said, "It's not your fault," and her silence drew a hard, straight line.
You learned to be the half-inch shim, the sawdust in the kerf,
To brace the frame and take the strain, to settle every nerve.
[Chorus]
Oh, the body's joinery is coming loose.
And this anger is the only proof of the boy you had to be.
[Bridge]
You're not the glue, you're not the clamp, you're not the finishing nail.
You're just the timber groaning from a weight it was never meant to take.
[Chorus]
Oh, the body's joinery is coming loose.
And this anger is a fine excuse to build something new for me.
(Song fades, appears to end. A 3-second pause.)
[Outro]
The next word from your mouth will be true.
The next word will be true.
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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