Lyrics
The dust motes swim in the Wednesday light.
He lifts me from the rack just after nine.
His knuckles are ghosts on my rosewood side.
He holds me up to a length of Lowcountry pine.
It's the same unfinished board, every time.
[Chorus]
One slow pass, from end to end.
I'm the iron's memory, his only friend.
A single perfect curl falls to the floor,
but he ain't buildin' nothin' anymore.
[Verse 2]
I knew his brother's hands, the pressure was fast.
Felt the sweat in the grain, the shadow he cast.
Heard him laugh through the sawdust, 'bout a week ago last…
"One day," he said, "we'll build a boat that'll last."
[Chorus]
One slow pass, from end to end.
I'm the iron's memory, his only friend.
A single perfect curl falls to the floor,
but he ain't buildin' nothin' anymore.
[Bridge]
And the whole damn house holds its breath with him.
From the cypress siding to the window trim.
Every joint and rafter feels the strain,
waiting on a word that won't explain the pain.
[Outro]
He sets me down, the steel is cool again.
Until next Wednesday... amen.
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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