Lyrics
The first cornerstone came from the bed of the White River
Still holding the August water, a cold kind of shiver
You balanced it plumb on the chert rock below
Humming a tune that I used to know.
[Chorus]
We called it a prayer set in dry-stack stone
A slow-motion ending we should have known.
[Verse 2]
We worked till the whippoorwills owned the dark air
Dust in your eyelashes, clay in your hair
You said, "This one's got a fault line, see the dark-water stain?"
And you set it aside in the coming rain.
[Chorus]
We called it a prayer set in dry-stack stone
A slow-motion ending we should have known.
[Bridge]
A good mason learns what the rock wants to do
I built a whole life and I never knew you.
[Outro]
Just a prayer set in stone.
About Kara Dalton
Kara Dalton was born in the Arkansas Ozarks and never saw a reason to leave. She plays the same cracked 1950s 12-string guitar her grandfather taught her on, its sound as raw and resonant as the hollows she calls home. She and her partner Sam, a stonemason, are slowly rebuilding an old cabin by hand on a piece of land backing up to the national forest. These songs are written on the porch after…
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