Lyrics
(A cappella)
The lights on the Köhlbrandbrücke in August of '09
Were a string of cheap pearls pulled a little too tight.
Your hand on the console, knuckles tracing a line,
Said the cold through the window was "a pretty good sign."
[Chorus]
And the grain of that moment, it just runs crooked now.
We were holding our breath but forgot to let it out.
Yeah, the grain of that moment, it just runs crooked now.
[Verse 2]
Stopped the car in the middle, felt the whole structure sway.
Just the hum of the rigging and the silt in the bay.
"Look," you said, "at the cranes, how they bend down to pray."
I was just trying to sand my rough edges away.
[Chorus]
And the grain of that moment, it just runs crooked now.
We were holding our breath but forgot to let it out.
Yeah, the grain of that moment, it just runs crooked now.
[Bridge]
We thought we were building something permanent then,
With pressure and patience and calloused skin.
A dovetail forever, where does that begin?
[Outro]
Forgot to let it out.
Runs crooked now.
About Søren Strand
Søren Strand was raised in the port district of Hamburg-Altona by his single mother, a Filipina nurse who worked double shifts. He learned to play on his grandmother's old upright piano, writing melodies to match the rhythm of the cargo cranes outside his window. His music, a unique blend of tropical-pop and North Sea melancholy, is shaped by a decade-long, on-and-off love with a maritime…
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