Lyrics
You laid the first stone down that Sunday the frost broke
Your knuckles were bleeding, I heard when you spoke
"This one's for the flash flood that finds its own way"
And you set it so level I feel it today.
[Chorus]
And you know a good wall by the weight in your hand
A little bit crooked is all it can stand
You know a good love by the secrets it holds
When the humidity settles and the story gets old.
[Verse 2]
I mixed up the mortar, too wet and too fast
You laughed and said, "Honey, this batch ain't gonna last."
The cold of the trowel burned right through my glove
You were humming a hymn, I was thinking of giving up.
[Chorus]
'Cause you know a good wall by the weight in your hand
A little bit crooked is all it can stand
You know a good love by the secrets it holds
When the humidity settles and the story gets old.
[Bridge]
That August the well water coughed up its rust
Stained all our good laundry a dull, angry dust
You just kept on digging, your back to the heat
"Clean water," you said, "always tastes bitter-sweet."
[Outro]
A little bit crooked.
A little bit slow.
About Kara Dalton
Kara Dalton was born in the Arkansas Ozarks and never saw a reason to leave. She plays the same cracked 1950s 12-string guitar her grandfather taught her on, its sound as raw and resonant as the hollows she calls home. She and her partner Sam, a stonemason, are slowly rebuilding an old cabin by hand on a piece of land backing up to the national forest. These songs are written on the porch after…
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