Lyrics
The kettle's pitch at 7 AM on Powell Boulevard,
The Genmaicha steam, a ghost in the window shard.
It's October 2023, the air is damp and thin,
Just like the rice paper of your skin.
[Pre-Chorus]
And I trace the grain of this memory's thin veneer,
Trying to build the room where you were still here.
[Chorus]
Just a ring of gold on the unfinished pine,
A tea-stain map you left behind.
[Verse 2]
Dad sent a cedar block, smells of the Astoria shop,
I found your note inside, a single folded drop.
It said, "The best joints never need the glue."
Is that what I'm still trying to prove to you?
[Pre-Chorus]
And I sand the edge of every word you said,
Try to join the living to the dead.
[Chorus]
Just a ring of gold on the unfinished pine,
A tea-stain map you left behind.
[Bridge]
I finally understand the quiet in your hands,
The patience of the sawdust on these borrowed lands.
It wasn't sadness, was it? Just the pressure and the design.
[Chorus]
Just a ring of gold... on the unfinished pine.
A tea-stain map... you left behind.
[Outro]
The kettle's gone cold.
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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