Lyrics
The Carolina Gold rice in that blue ceramic bowl.
Sunday, quarter-past six, the air is getting cold.
You're leaning on the counter, telling me about your day.
And the water's running over my knuckles as I drift away.
[Chorus]
It's this future ache I'm feeling now.
For a love I ain't even lost yet, somehow.
This water's running cold on the giving ground.
For a memory we haven't lived down.
[Verse 2]
"You a thousand miles away," you whisper, turning off the tap.
I try to join this moment, but my hands are caught in a trap.
Just measuring the grain of it, trying to find the truest line.
Afraid to make the first cut on a grace this fine.
[Chorus]
It's this future ache I'm feeling now.
For a love I ain't even lost yet, somehow.
This water's running cold on the giving ground.
For a memory we haven't lived down.
[Bridge]
My brother left a silence wide as the Cooper River span.
So I hold every good thing with two calloused hands.
I hold it 'til the feeling splinters under my thumb.
[Outro]
Running cold.
Yeah, the water's running cold.
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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