Lyrics
The Hagi-yaki bowl from Mom’s last trip to Yamaguchi,
Shards on the workshop floor, it's just ten past midnight.
I'm sweeping the dust of it up with the cedar shavings,
And the salt on the air from the coast has the temper of patience.
[Chorus]
This is the grain of you, love.
This is the anger I'm sanding down smooth.
[Verse 2]
You screamed, "You just don't know how to build anything real!"
The back of your coat caught the lamp as you turned on your heel.
And the foghorn moaned out on the bay, like it knew how I feel,
Another two years of my quiet just broke on your wheel.
[Chorus]
This is the grain of you, love.
This is the anger I'm sanding down smooth.
[Bridge]
You're a knot in the pine, a beautiful flaw in the cut,
And I'm trying to work with the line but the join won't stay shut.
[Outro]
The sawdust just settles again.
And the tide's coming in.
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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