Lyrics
The model suite on the fifth floor of The Jasper.
I drew its floorplan in my head some August after.
The kind of clean that ain't never known a callus.
Just poured concrete floors and a bought-and-paid-for palace.
[Chorus]
This the furnished surrender I been practicing for.
This the echo that answers when my hands ain't sore.
This the view from the window when I sell off the grain.
Just me and the stranger standin' out in the rain.
[Verse 2]
I'd place the sofa where the harbor light would hit it.
Watch the ships on the Cooper and just try to forget it.
Granddaddy told me, voice like varnish and smoke,
"Boy, you measure the cut 'fore the heart of it's broke."
[Bridge]
But some days the silence in here gets too heavy to hold.
A shape in the sawdust that's twenty years old.
[Outro]
I keep the phone on the bench, just in case...
I ever get the nerve to say your—
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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