Lyrics
The screen door sighs the salt in off the marsh road.
My whole life I been walking with a shoulder low.
Then you come 'round, all magnolias and sun shower,
And my spine tries to straighten up an inch an hour.
[Chorus]
This is the good wood, the heart pine, the straight grain.
And I'm already bracing for the hurricane.
[Verse 2]
Last Tuesday, cooking shrimp in a pot of Geechie red rice,
You said, "Your hands look heavy, what's their secret life?"
I watched the steam curl up, couldn't find the tool to say,
They're just tryin' to balance what was taken away.
[Chorus]
This is the good wood, the heart pine, the straight grain.
And I'm already bracing for the hurricane.
[Bridge]
I know the measure of a good, strong joint,
But what's the blueprint for this kind of joy?
[Chorus]
This is the good wood, the heart pine, the straight grain.
And I'm already bracing for the hurricane.
[Outro]
Yeah, I'm bracing...
For the good.
About Sam Crooke
Sam Crooke builds furniture by day and songs by night in his Charleston, South Carolina workshop. Raised in the Gullah Geechee tradition of the Sea Islands, his gospel-rooted soul is shaped by the sudden loss of his older brother in his teens, a silence he's been trying to fill with music ever since. His songs are like the wood he works: heavy, honest, and holding the grain of a story. Sam Crooke…
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