Lyrics
(A cappella)
They never bought the cradle wood.
They never bought the cradle wood.
(Guitar enters)
The rift began on Tuesday, quarter to four,
With a seven-foot board of clear Oregon Fir.
He traced a burl on the unfinished face,
A fault line running through the time and place.
[Chorus]
And the fine-toothed dust, a settling snow,
On the plans they drew for a life to grow.
A ghost in the grain, a silent sound,
They never bought the cradle wood to bring back to town.
[Verse 2]
I was just the kid who ran the till that week,
Felt the air grow thin with the words they wouldn't speak.
"Just pick a board," he said, the saw whined back a threat,
She just stared at the kerf-marks of a debt not paid yet.
[Chorus]
And the fine-toothed dust, a settling snow,
On the plans they drew for a life to grow.
A ghost in the grain, a silent sound,
They never bought the cradle wood to bring back to town.
[Bridge]
And I swept that dust up at closing time,
A patina of promise, a particle of crime.
Every unbuilt thing leaves a powder on the floor,
A phantom limb that reaches for a locked apartment door.
[Outro]
(Stripped back to just acoustic and voice)
They never bought the cradle wood.
Just the long, straight cut of 'it's understood.'
About Elliott Smyth
Elliott Smyth's childhood was split between two postcodes: weekdays in his mother's quiet Portland apartment, and weekends in his father's boat-building workshop on the Oregon coast. The divorce made him a quiet diplomat, an expert in the art of observation. He still writes his songs on the battered Yamaha acoustic his father gave him, turning the sawdust and silence of his past into intricate…
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