Lyrics
This CertainTeed siding peels back in the humid August heat.
Oh, crooked frame, you hold the sound of two retreating feet.
Every winter, one more joist gives way beneath the floor.
I don't know who I'm patching all this riverwood rot for.
[Chorus]
(Second vocalist enters, cleaner, more ethereal)
Is it still the same house if you change out the wood?
Is it still the same love if you forget where you stood?
[Verse 2]
Last Tuesday, you said, "I don't know that man's face,"
Pointing at that picture from the old Guyandotte place.
The man I was then, he's a fault line in the shale.
I hammer in a different nail, tell a different tale.
[Chorus]
(Second vocalist harmonies stronger, lead vocal joins)
Is it still the same house if you change out the wood?
Is it still the same love if you forget where you stood?
[Bridge]
A hull is just a promise that the river won't get in.
It doesn't matter what's been broken, just where you begin.
[Outro]
All this new wood... feels just like the weight.
About Lane Stayton
As the oldest of six in a West Virginia factory town, Lane Stayton had to parent his siblings while still a child himself. The resentment and fierce loyalty of that stolen youth fuels his music—a heavy, sludgy grunge built on down-tuned guitars and his own pained, double-tracked vocal harmonies. His songs, written on a beat-up acoustic in a small apartment overlooking the Ohio River, are raw…
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Who is Lane Stayton?
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Riverwood Rot is Rock.
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