Lyrics
I bought the Douglas Fir down on Division Street
To build the wall between the couch and your side of the bed.
It’s 2 AM on a Wednesday, the whole apartment smells like sap and dread,
A future I am measuring in feet.
[Chorus]
And Anna, I'm just getting a head start
On taking this whole damn thing apart.
[Verse 2]
"Don't forget the milk," you wrote on the genmaicha box,
A ghost of ink I can’t bring myself to wipe away.
So I'm out here tracing kerf marks from my father’s saw,
Planning for the silence of the day.
[Chorus]
And Anna, I'm just getting a head start
On taking this whole damn thing apart.
[Bridge]
Is this the grain I was born to follow?
Some knot in the wood, a fatal hollow?
I'm just the sawdust settling after the final, quiet cut.
[Chorus]
And Anna, I'm just getting a head start
On taking this whole damn thing apart.
(Music fades completely. Pause for 4 seconds.)
[Coda]
The half-inch shim sits on the sill,
Just in case the floor's not level still.
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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