Lyrics
Chalmers Street cobblestones are slick from a Tuesday rain.
You're holding number eighty-seven, trying to plane the strain
From the cypress in your spine, keeping that posture true.
Granddaddy taught you how to stand when they don't see you.
[Chorus]
And the world just kinda ends with a quiet little hum.
In polite company, you learn to play numb.
[Verse 2]
The air in here is heavy, tastes of dust and paper rot.
The clock above her head is stuck at three-oh-eight, or not.
"Next," she says, her voice a file across the finish on the wood.
And you give the smile you're meant to give, the one he never could.
[Chorus]
And the world just kinda ends with a quiet little hum.
In polite company, you learn to play numb.
[Bridge]
Your calloused hands remember the honest heft of a tool.
But folded in your lap, they're breaking every single rule.
[Outro]
Eighty-seven...
You don't hear your number called at all.
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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