[Spoken Intro — Male Vocal — Jhöl] Ya...... How is everybody feeling tonight...... Ya...... You know I spent a lot of years wondering why I am here and better people are gone...... Maybe you feel like that too some days...... Maybe this will help...... Nobody seems to agree on who said it...... but the two most important days of your life are the day you were born...... and the day you find out why...... Took me 51 years but here we are...... ya...... It's never too late. [Live Performance] [Intro — Instrumental] (slow swampy guitar, low and coiling) [Verse 1] Clawfoot tub and candlelight Wine going warm on the tile She told you the thing that split her family You held it like it was yours a while Bubbles on the porcelain Her voice going somewhere real You thought that was love You thought that was enough You had no idea what you couldn't feel [Pre-Chorus] Then she swung And you swung back And you drove to his house in the dark And he said Son it's not your fault It's mine You come from me That's the part [Chorus] That's the hammer That's the blood That's the man you never got to choose That's the darkness In the clawfoot tub That's the love you didn't know how to use You walked away clean Called it fate Handed her back her own pain The Big Book said You could change But you drove home With the hammer Again [Verse 2] Two in the morning Wrong side of town Man with something automatic Nobody hit the ground You looked him dead and level Stone cold in the light Some part of you wanted it Some part of you Said not tonight [Pre-Chorus] That's the part she never knew That's the part you couldn't say That's what was sitting in the tub with you Every single day [Chorus] That's the hammer That's the blood That's the man you never got to choose That's the darkness In the clawfoot tub That's the love you didn't know how to use You walked away clean Called it fate Handed her back her own pain The Big Book said You could change But you drove home With the hammer Again [Bridge] She chose you anyway That was her answer You decided that proved Something was wrong with her Gold dust and gasoline Candles burning sideways A woman loving broken Like she deserved To be the cure [Bass Solo — Ellis Drummond — Extended] (Ellis holds the room alone — low and slow, coiling, swampy — the hammer gone quiet — just the pulse underneath everything — hold it — hold it — hold it) [Final Chorus] That's the hammer That's the blood That's the man you finally had to lose That's the darkness Leaving the clawfoot tub That's the love you had to learn to use You walked through the fire Paid the weight Handed yourself back your own pain The Big Book said You could change And you drove home Without the hammer This time [Outro — Single Guitar — Fading] Without the hammer This time
