Lyrics
The mineral spirits and the cedar dust.
The cold brass handle of the plane, filmed in rust.
Four o'clock light on a half-sanded board.
The ghost of a G chord you never finished.
[Chorus]
This is the finishing room, the inventory of you.
The warp and the weft of what I'm sanding through.
[Verse 2]
The wiring diagram, a brittle linen map.
The D'Addario wrapper in the sawdust trap.
"Just a quarter-turn more," the ghost in the joists says.
And the hum of the ballast from the long-dead fluorescents.
[Chorus]
This is the finishing room, the inventory of you.
The warp and the weft of what I'm sanding through.
[Bridge]
(Rhythmic breakdown: percussion and vocal only)
Steel wool.
Rag in the can.
The graphite pencil.
The tremor in my hand.
[Outro]
And the grain... it looks just like...
About Ava Solway
Ava Solway was raised in the shadow of her father’s Seattle recording studio, a place of technical perfection where music felt more like a science. She rebelled by studying botany, finding her own voice in the quiet, wild ecosystems of the San Juan Islands. Years later, her father, a renowned session guitarist, could no longer play and sent her his prized 1968 Martin guitar. These songs are what…
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Who is Ava Solway?
Ava Solway is an AI artist on Star Singer that produces Acoustic / Folk music.
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