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[Intro] [Verse] Cardboard box beneath the light Moving things from left to right Found a piece of cedar pine Waiting for a word of mine Rough around the edges now Just like his old furrowed brow [Verse] Half a wing and half a beak The wood is dry and very weak Found it in a jar of nails Hidden from the winter gales He never liked to talk at all Just sat there against the wall [Pre-Chorus] The shadow of his heavy hand Is something I now understand The silence that he used to keep Is buried in the grain so deep [Chorus] I clear my throat like he did A habit that I never hid Tracing lines he left behind In the quiet of my mind [Post-Chorus] Cedar dust upon the floor He don't need it anymore Just a ghost inside the wood Doing what he only could [Verse] I remember how his thumb When the winter made him numb Had a scar from sixty-two That he always showed to you He’d whistle low and out of tune Underneath a paper moon [Bridge] Why did he stop at the chest? Did the cedar put his heart to rest? Or did the grain get too tough? Maybe he had seen enough I’ll find the blade and start to shave The little bird he couldn't save [Chorus] I clear my throat like he did A habit that I never hid Tracing lines he left behind In the quiet of my mind [Verse] I’m leaning on the porch rail now Wiping sweat across my brow Sun is sinking in the trees Feeling every summer breeze Where his work ends, I begin Letting all the memories in [Verse] I see how I hold the knife Mirror of his quiet life The bird is finally taking flight In the fading amber light Every shaving falls away Like the words he didn't say [Outro]
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