Lyrics
The freight train groans on the trestle over the Wando.
Air's so thick you could carve your name in the quiet.
I saw her hand, brother, under the palmetto shadow,
Restin' in a hand that wasn't his. Just keepin' my breath private.
[Pre-Chorus]
And I turn my key in the lock, slow and low.
Tryna tell my feet where to go.
Tryna tell myself it ain't my truth to carry.
Tryna pray this secret gets easy to bury...
[Chorus]
Brother, which wood do I choose?
The heartwood lie or the bitter truth?
One of 'em splinters, both of 'em bruise.
[Verse 2]
He called me last Tuesday, voice all sawdust and gravel.
Said, "Man, she's the only clean-planed board holdin' me level."
The phone in my palm felt clammy, hot from the travel
Of a word I swallowed down, a poison from the devil.
[Chorus]
Brother, which wood do I choose?
The heartwood lie or the bitter truth?
One of 'em splinters, both of 'em bruise.
[Bridge]
My hands know the heft of a heavy thing.
But this secret's a splinter I can't pull clean.
[Outro]
Which wood, brother?
Which one do I choose?
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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