Lyrics
(A cappella)
The four-thirty light in late October hits the dust on the bandsaw.
(Music in)
You traced a line in the grit on the windowsill, didn't look up at all.
I hold the hum of the dehumidifier, the smell of cut pine and cold solder.
I'm just the floorboards, the joists, and the wiring, getting older.
[Chorus]
And the grain runs crooked now, a line you can't sand out.
The joint won't sit flush, there's no sense in screaming about it.
This beautiful splinter, a truth you can't plane away.
We were built to last a season, not to stay.
[Verse 2]
I watch you measure the same piece of birchwood for the seventh time tonight.
Elara's polishing steel at her workbench under the single bare light.
I feel the rumble deep in my foundation, the 8:02 freight for the coast.
Of all the futures you started in here, this is the one you fear most.
[Chorus]
And the grain runs crooked now, a line you can't sand out.
The joint won't sit flush, there's no sense in screaming about it.
This beautiful splinter, a truth you can't plane away.
We were built to last a season, not to stay.
[Bridge]
"It's just warped," you said, "from the damn river damp."
A half-finished chair leg leaning dead against the amp.
[Chorus]
And the grain runs crooked now, a line you can't sand out.
The joint won't sit flush, there's no sense in screaming about it.
This beautiful splinter, a truth you can't plane away.
We were built to last a season, not to stay.
[Outro]
The light is gone from the bandsaw.
The train is gone.
About Vaughn Kiln
Vaughn Kiln was born in the shadow of Pittsburgh's defunct steel mills, and his music still carries their metallic ring. His father was an ironworker, and Vaughn’s wiry, jagged guitar lines are built on a similar logic of stress and tension. He writes songs in the basement of the row house he shares with his partner of seven years, the metalsmith Elara. These are taut, anxious anthems about…
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