You wipe your hands on grease-stained jeans
The tuning fork sings low and clean
Porch boards groan beneath your weight
Lightning writes its crooked fate
Thunder rolls the sky apart
Each note a hammer on the heart
You turn the pin with callused thumb
Darkness waits for sound to come
Tune the storm on splintered wood Lightning keys misunderstood
Every strike finds perfect pitch
Porch glows bright without a switch
Wrench clicks tight on stubborn peg
Rain writes rivers down your leg
Octave by octave you chase
Night's wild voice to find its place
Thunder rolls the sky apart
Each note a hammer on the heart
You turn the pin with callused thumb
Darkness waits for sound to come
Tune the storm on splintered wood
Lightning keys misunderstood
Every strike finds perfect pitch
Porch glows bright without a switch
Regulars would call this crazy
You and me just slightly hazy
Grill goes cold the eggs run slow
Storm's the only song we know
Fourth and Main don't hear this tune
Just the rain and wooden moon
Hammers rest on felt so deep
Promises the wood will keep
Tune the storm on splintered wood Lightning keys misunderstood
Every strike finds perfect pitch
Porch glows bright without a switch
Dawn cracks slow through pine and wire
Strings hold fire strings hold fire
Last chord rings in callused air
Porch still glowing storm still there
Tune the storm on splintered wood Lightning keys misunderstood
Every strike finds perfect pitch
Porch glows bright without a switch
Tuning fork on windowsill
Morning coffee storm stood still