What He Never Said

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What He Never Said

[Verse]
He never gave a speech at the kitchen table
Just fixed the latch on the pantry door
He didn’t promise what he wasn't able
He just left grease on the cellar floor
He pointed his chin at the lawn needing mowing
Handed me keys without looking twice
There was no need for the art of bestowing
When silence was heavier than advice

[Chorus]
He showed me how to stand in the pouring rain
How to hammer a nail straight through the pain
He spoke in the language of work and wood
And we understood, yeah, we understood

[Verse]
He’d sit on the porch with a cold glass of water
Watching the dust settle over the yard
Never asked how I’d win or what I’d caught her
Just knew when the winters were getting too hard
He’d check the oil with a flick of his wrist
Tap on the fender to say it was sound
A quiet language I sometimes missed
Until the echoes had left the ground

[Chorus]
He showed me how to stand in the pouring rain
How to hammer a nail straight through the pain
He spoke in the language of work and wood
And we understood, yeah, we understood

[Bridge]
Now I find myself pausing before I speak
Doing the things that he used to do
The decades roll over, the memory grows weak
Yet the silhouette holds and the feeling stays true

[Chorus]
He showed me how to stand in the pouring rain
How to hammer a nail straight through the pain
He spoke in the language of work and wood
And we understood, yeah, we understood