Lyrics
The first nail hit at sun-up, Tuesday week
Shook the dust from a sleeping copperhead's cheek
My window glass, a cataract of grey
Let in a light I hadn't seen since May of '83
[Chorus]
Oh, the sound of a saw on my rotten pine
Oh, the weight of your hand on this spine of mine
Just a little more water in the well
Another story these old timbers get to tell
[Verse 2]
Heard you whisper through a chink in the clay
Fighting quiet 'bout the price of seed today
You traced a circle on the fog of my pane
Said "Sam, it's just the sound of coming rain."
[Chorus]
Oh, the sound of a saw on my rotten pine
Oh, the weight of your hand on this spine of mine
Just a little more water in the well
Another story these old timbers get to tell
[Bridge]
The ones before you, they just let the kudzu creep
Planted sorrow and they harvested the sleep
But you pull the poison vine back from my door
I don't remember what the quiet was for
[Outro]
Your boot-thump rhythm on my kitchen floor
Is all the prayer I need, and nothing more.
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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