Lyrics
It's three-seventeen on a Tulsa Tuesday.
The phone's still warm where it touched my face.
Just the sound of the dial tone fillin' this space,
And the beep tellin' me to start talkin' again.
[Chorus]
But how do you varnish a kindness this bare?
How do you hold it without leaving a scratch somewhere?
[Verse 2]
You said, "I kept the dog and I fixed the back gate."
Like two plain facts meant to reset the weight.
I tried to say thanks but the words came out late,
Just a splinter of sound that got caught in my throat.
[Chorus]
So how do you varnish a kindness this bare?
How do you hold it without leaving a scratch somewhere?
[Bridge]
I've spent my whole life mending busted-up frames,
Dovetailin' pieces and whispering names.
But I don't have the tools for this.
[Chorus]
How do you varnish a kindness this bare?
How do you hold it without leaving a scratch somewhere?
[Outro]
Anyway... guess I'll see you around.
*click*
About Hank Wyatt
Hank Wyatt learned to play guitar in a quiet bedroom overlooking a persimmon orchard, on the Oklahoma farm his Japanese-American grandparents started after the war. He spent his childhood split between two houses, becoming a quiet observer and a student of mending things—first fences, then guitars, then people. His honky-tonk songs, written from the back rooms of Tulsa dive bars where he still…
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