Lyrics
(A Cappella)
The first cut follows the pencil mark.
The first doubt follows the front door dark.
(Beat drops)
The fifth of August, with your charts for the Cretean coast,
I started measuring the space for your ghost.
The workshop air smelled of pine dust and the river's cold breath,
Practicing for the quiet after you have left.
[Chorus]
And I keep sanding the wood smooth,
Building the proof against the damp,
Bracing for the truth
Underneath a single lamp.
[Verse 2]
I remember your hands on the oak for the sill we planned,
Tracing the knots across the unforgiving grain.
You said, "It just needs pressure to fit, you understand?"
Then the taxi was waiting in the Tuesday rain.
[Chorus]
And I keep sanding the wood smooth,
Building the proof against the damp,
Bracing for the truth
Underneath a single lamp.
[Bridge]
Is this a joint that’s built to hold just my own weight?
A frame I started building just a little too late?
This exhausted hope, a tool I can't put down.
[Chorus]
But I keep sanding the wood smooth,
Building the proof against the damp,
Bracing for the truth
Underneath a single lamp.
[Outro]
The first cut...
The first cut...
About Søren Strand
Søren Strand was raised in the port district of Hamburg-Altona by his single mother, a Filipina nurse who worked double shifts. He learned to play on his grandmother's old upright piano, writing melodies to match the rhythm of the cargo cranes outside his window. His music, a unique blend of tropical-pop and North Sea melancholy, is shaped by a decade-long, on-and-off love with a maritime…
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