Lyrics
Granddad's King James on the mantlepiece
Smells like salt and cedar smoke.
Tucked inside the Book of Ruth
is a Kodak print from '74, starting to soak.
[Chorus]
They built their house with dovetailed joints,
A straight-backed love against the tide.
And I'm just splinters and bad epoxy
Trying to hold two shores inside.
[Verse 2]
He's got his oilskins on, her hair's a mess,
A smudge of blue on her left hand.
This was before the wharf rats came for good,
Before they ever had to sell the land.
She told me once, "Boy, a good life's ballast,"
"It ain't the heading, it's the hold."
[Chorus]
They built their house with dovetailed joints,
A straight-backed love against the tide.
And I'm just splinters and bad epoxy
Trying to hold two shores inside.
[Bridge]
The Green Line train rattles my window pane,
That distant horn is just a warning now.
It doesn't call a single boat back home,
It just shakes the pictures on the wall somehow.
[Outro]
Just a ghost of pine on a city wind
And a photograph starting to fold.
About Silas Carrick
Silas Carrick grew up on Monhegan Island, Maine, a remote fishing outpost with a year-round population of 64. He learned to play on a beat-up banjo he found in the back of the island's one-room library during a winter storm that cut them off from the mainland. Now based in Boston, his songs are dispatches from the space between two worlds: the tidal rhythms of his past and the relentless hum of…
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