Lyrics
The man from Entergy just left, it's quarter past nine on a Sunday.
Your hand on the wall switch makes the whole damn room sway.
The raw pine smells like heat, a clean and sudden burn.
This is the one lesson I was always slow to learn.
[Chorus]
And oh, Sam, can you hear it? That thin copper hum.
The sound of a good thing that's only just begun.
[Verse 2]
For three hundred evenings, just the Coleman's steady hiss.
And the tap-tap-tapping where the new floor joist is.
You said, "Hand me the chalk line," and the cabin held its breath.
We were building this whole house on the other side of death.
[Chorus]
And oh, Sam, can you hear it? That thin copper hum.
The sound of a good thing that's only just begun.
[Bridge]
This ain't the flash flood water, the kind that takes the bank.
It's the well rope pulling steady from the bottom of the tank.
[Outro]
A single filament singing.
Quietly.
About Kara Dalton
Kara Dalton was born in the Arkansas Ozarks and never saw a reason to leave. She plays the same cracked 1950s 12-string guitar her grandfather taught her on, its sound as raw and resonant as the hollows she calls home. She and her partner Sam, a stonemason, are slowly rebuilding an old cabin by hand on a piece of land backing up to the national forest. These songs are written on the porch after…
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