Unbuilding the House

from Solstice Fire by SeaMuse

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A song looking back on Stanley’s early days building his house on Lopez Island, and then remodeling it many years later.

lyrics

Unbuilding the house goes quicker, yet thought is slower
holding the blackened hinges I laid in fire years ago
Burned away the galvanizing, and set them perfectly
on the handmade doors I’d made for a cabinet long gone

Chorus:
No one else can unbuild
No one else can unbuild
No one else can unbuild this house but me
No one but me

I’m taking a risk here, my spinning blade, a hidden nail
could ruin my day or put out an eye
Measure twice cut once or don’t cut at all

Good cabinet doors, rough silver cedar
will make nice kindling, a warm winter’s fire

Chorus:

Fine figured patterns, I trace them in the grain
every board held some meaning, so long ago and today
I see a young man standing, a hammer in his hand
He drives it home for truth and beauty,
that young man was me, that young man was me

Chorus:
No one else can unbuild
No one else can unbuild
No one else can unbuild this house but me
That young man was me

Chorus:
No one else can unbuild
No one else can unbuild
No one else can unbuild this house but me
No one but me

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from Solstice Fire, released December 21, 2019
(music & lyrics by Stanley Greenthal, © 2019)

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SeaMuse Seattle, Washington

Stanley Greenthal: guitar | bouzouki | mandocello | tenor guitar | vocals

Christos Govetas: clarinet | oud | daouli | bendir | dobro | vocals

Kim Goldov: violin | bass | glockenspiel | piano | vocals

Kip Greenthal: bendir | bowed psaltery | vocals


with Bobby Govetas: drums (track 4) ... more

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