Lyrics
The radioulnar joint in my left wrist clicks.
Same spot that hit the pavement on SE Ankeny that night.
Third week of this November rain, a constant drip.
And the damp gets in the hairline crack you left, makes it bite.
[Chorus]
Oh, holy silt and sun-baked clay,
Take this Portland ache away.
Draw the poison from the marrow of me.
[Verse 2]
I trace the scar, a pale white map above the bone.
You said "we're just pressure and time" like some kinda prophet.
Now I'm praying to the dust I left back home, all alone.
Got your photograph in a drawer, can't bring myself to toss it.
[Chorus]
Oh, holy silt and sun-baked clay,
This fault line's in me now to stay.
Draw the poison from the marrow of me.
[Bridge]
You were a whole new mineral I couldn't classify.
I see your face in the oil slick on the wet street.
Just show me how to bear the weight.
[Outro]
Let the creosote burn clean.
Let the rain wash something else.
About Kailani Cove
Kailani Cove was raised by her Apache grandmother in the New Mexico desert town of Truth or Consequences. At 19, she left for the rain-soaked anonymity of Portland, Oregon, with nothing but a bus ticket. Her songs, written on a vintage Wurlitzer her mom won in a poker game, are intimate dispatches from the space between two worlds, mapping the emotional territory of a past you can't shake and a…
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