Lyrics
This piece of birch will outlast us both, Sarah.
The block plane whispers shavings on the Clark Road floor.
It's Tuesday, 1 a.m., the furnace hums its low-note error,
and I'm building you a table I'm not sure what for.
But the grain runs straight, and my hands don't shake tonight.
[Chorus]
And I'm trying to memorize the dust in the air,
the smell of the cut, the shape of this prayer.
'Cause this feeling's the kind you can't build to remain.
I'm already missing the feel of the true grain.
[Verse 2]
Last week at the lake, wind burning my face,
you traced the scar above my left eye.
"Don't ever sand it smooth," you said, "I like the grain in this place."
Didn't know you were talking 'bout more than just the sky.
Now every pass of the blade is your fingertip's ghost.
[Chorus]
And I'm trying to memorize the dust in the air,
the smell of the cut, the shape of this prayer.
'Cause this feeling's the kind you can't build to remain.
I'm already missing the feel of the true grain.
[Bridge]
These freight trains rattle pictures on the wall,
a rhythm for the brace and the join.
They sing about leaving, I'm just hoping not to fall
apart when this moment is a coin I can't spend again.
(Music fades to silence for 3-5 seconds)
[Outro]
(Music returns, sparse and filtered)
This piece of birch will outlast us both, Sarah.
About Bill Wexler
Bill Wexler builds things. By day, he works as a carpenter in Gary, Indiana, the city where he was born and raised. By night, he builds songs from the quiet, ordinary moments of his life: the hum of a freight train, the weight of a toolbox, the challenge of raising his teenage daughter, Maya. He had Maya when he was 18, and his minimalist soul music is a plainspoken chronicle of a decade spent…
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