Lyrics
The Kanna plane shavings on the gallery floor
Are thin as a prayer on a late Thursday afternoon.
You feel the cold off the Astoria bay window glass,
Tracing the grain in a bowl carved from myrtlewood.
[Chorus]
And you see how the silence was planed to a curve,
A quiet protest made of patience and nerve.
The truest things you know are built this slow.
[Verse 2]
Your father's workshop ghost-scents your coat,
Cedar dust and the tannin from lukewarm tea.
"'Let the grain decide,' he'd say, then clear his throat."
A language of joinery you refused to see.
[Chorus]
And you see how his silence was planed to a curve,
A lifetime of patience held in reserve.
The hardest things you know are built this slow.
[Bridge]
You always forced the dovetail, split the stock,
Made a splintered mess on the concrete block.
Just a legacy of sawdust and a stopped clock.
[Chorus]
Now you see how your silence could be planed to a curve,
A fragile hope that you might still deserve.
The only things that last are built this slow.
[Outro]
The shavings curl.
The dust finally settles down.
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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