Lyrics
The Fubonn Market teacup slipped, just after half-past nine.
The sound was sharp, a hairline crack along the painted vine.
You didn't even flinch, just knelt there on the floor,
And gathered up the two clean halves like you had known before.
[Chorus]
You fill the kerf with lacquer veins of powdered gold.
A map of how it fell apart is how the truth gets told.
[Verse 2]
The smell of urushi, a scent like winter pine,
Last Tuesday in November, you took your patient time.
You held the edges steady, let the bright dust fall,
As if you were rebuilding us from nothing much at all.
[Chorus]
You fill the kerf with lacquer veins of powdered gold.
A map of how it fell apart is how the truth gets told.
[Bridge]
“It’s not the same,” you said, and I thought you meant ‘it’s less’,
You whispered, “wabi-sabi desu ne?” under your breath.
[Outro]
The seam is where the light gets in.
This seam is how we start again.
About Elliott Smyth
Elliott Smyth's childhood was split between two postcodes: weekdays in his mother's quiet Portland apartment, and weekends in his father's boat-building workshop on the Oregon coast. The divorce made him a quiet diplomat, an expert in the art of observation. He still writes his songs on the battered Yamaha acoustic his father gave him, turning the sawdust and silence of his past into intricate…
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