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Carpenter by Islands
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“Carpenter” is an unusual instance of an artist recording a cover version of someone else’s song, but going so long without listening to it that they forgot it was a cover. Nick Thorburn made this statement to Stereogum about how “Carpenter” came to exist in its current state:
Before Islomania, I h...
Carpenter Lyrics
If you were a carpenter
Your hand to the grain
If you stayed a stranger
And I'd never learned your name
If you were a creature of make believe
If you were the shades of colors my eyes cannot see
I never would have known
What you would have meant to me
[interlude]
If you had an ironclad
Reason to stay home
If you played a second late
Your hands missed the note
If you were a followеr of simple faith
If you’d been following another in some othеr way
I never would have known
What you would have meant to me
[interlude]
I never would have known
Just what you meant to me
I never would have known
Just what you meant to me