Lyrics
Deloris' hands, after the Tuesday bleach-water,
Got a map drawn in the palm of every hard-won quarter.
The skin feel like rough-cast mortar mi mix in the sun,
A story done before my own life even start run.
[Chorus]
Is the house she build, right here in her bone.
A foundation deep... inna flesh and stone.
Every scar a shingle, every tired sigh a cornerstone.
[Verse 2]
See the silver line run cross her knuckle from a pot of scaldin' rice,
The way she hold her shoulder tight when the pressure get precise.
She just smile and seh, "Is nuttin', son. The Lord will provide."
But I see the structural stress she try so hard to hide.
[Chorus]
Is the house she build, right here in her bone.
A foundation deep... inna flesh and stone.
Every scar a shingle, every tired sigh a cornerstone.
[Bridge]
Mi pull out mi spirit level, hold it up against the grain,
Tryin' fi find the balance true between the love and the pain.
[Outro]
Flesh and stone...
The cornerstone.
About Robert Markel
Robert Markel learned his first chords on a beat-up guitar in a Trench Town yard, taught by the same hands that his mother, Deloris, worked to the bone at two jobs to support him. He became a mason to pay the bills, learning to build walls that were straight and true, a philosophy he pours into his roots reggae anthems. The songs are for his community, for the struggle, and for the one promise he…
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