Lyrics
The Stanley #1 Caulking Iron is on my Fenway window sill.
It catches the light from the Pru, standing cold and still.
Weighs more than it should for a piece of forged steel,
Smells like pine tar, not this diesel I feel.
[Chorus]
This rust on my thumb is my whole truth.
It's the only proof.
[Verse 2]
It's the last thing he gave me, the winter of '09.
He said, "Don't force the seam, you just follow the line."
His knuckles were knots in a water-logged rope.
Now the Green Line train screams and I'm losing that hope.
[Chorus]
This rust on my thumb is my whole truth.
It's the only proof.
[Bridge]
The adze and the auger.
The fear and the rot.
The two-thirty ferry.
The reason I'm not.
[Outro]
Boston Light's calling, but it isn't for me.
Just a tool in a window that can't see the sea.
About Silas Carrick
Silas Carrick grew up on Monhegan Island, Maine, a remote fishing outpost with a year-round population of 64. He learned to play on a beat-up banjo he found in the back of the island's one-room library during a winter storm that cut them off from the mainland. Now based in Boston, his songs are dispatches from the space between two worlds: the tidal rhythms of his past and the relentless hum of…
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