The Chipped Sun-Jar

[Intro]
[Verse]
Dusty floorboards creak beneath my boots
Digging through the tangled, silver roots
Of boxes labeled nineteen ninety four
Tucked behind the heavy cedar door
Found a jar with a jagged rim
Where the attic light was growing dim
[Pre-Chorus]
Then the glass began to hum
Like a summer's distant drum
Bringing back the sweet and slow
Of the place I used to know
[Chorus]
Picking peaches by the harvest moon
Humming to a soft and scratchy tune
Grandma held the light inside her hand
Brightest spark in all this hollow land
It’s a chipped sun-jar, an amber glow
Keeping secrets only we would know
[Verse]
Sticky fingers, juice upon my chin
Letting all that golden evening in
The rocking chair would slowly swing
While the crickets started to sing
We’d watch the fireflies go by
Underneath that big Tennessee sky
[Pre-Chorus]
Then the glass began to hum
Like a summer's distant drum
Bringing back the sweet and slow
Of the place I used to know
[Chorus]
Picking peaches by the harvest moon
Humming to a soft and scratchy tune
Grandma held the light inside her hand
Brightest spark in all this hollow land
It’s a chipped sun-jar, an amber glow
Keeping secrets only we would know
[Solo]
[Bridge]
It’s not just glass and dusty wire
It’s a piece of her, a holy fire
And as I hold it to my chest
I feel my heavy heart finally rest
Light in there is light in me
The girl she always knew I’d be
[Chorus]
Picking peaches by the harvest moon
Humming to a soft and scratchy tune
Grandma held the light inside her hand
Brightest spark in all this hollow land
It’s a chipped sun-jar, an amber glow
Keeping secrets only we would know
[Post-Chorus]
It’s a chipped sun-jar, an amber glow
Keeping secrets only we would know
Light in there is light in me
The girl she always knew I’d be
[Outro]