Lyrics
The Stanley No. 4 you gave me for my thirtieth birthday
Is catching the porch light in a real sad-clown kind of way.
We used to fit together, a clean dovetail joint,
Now there's a hairline gap, you can't miss the point.
[Chorus]
Are these the same hands that held you in the rain?
Is that the same heart beating out my name?
We replaced all the pieces, worn down by the years,
Honey, are we a restoration or just souvenirs?
[Verse 2]
I found that list of names we made for a son,
Tucked in a stack of receipts from 2001.
You said, "Throw that out, it's just ink on a page."
Your voice had a new varnish that didn't come with age.
[Chorus]
Are these the same hands that held you in the rain?
Is that the same heart beating out my name?
We replaced all the pieces, worn down by the years,
Honey, are we a restoration or just souvenirs?
[Bridge]
The grain on this old pine is a map of the droughts.
The whole damn house smells like turpentine and doubt.
Is it a betrayal to the kid I was then
To just stop sanding this thing back to when?
[Outro]
A restoration... or just souvenirs...
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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