The Cabinet Kept No Secrets — A Song Inspired by South Carolina restaurant owner finds $12,000 in an old cabinet and returns it to the former owner

[Verse 1]
Old wood, old dust, old nickel smell
A drawer came loose and the green rain fell
I stood there quiet with my hand on the pile
And the room got loud for a little while

[Verse 2]
Twelve thousand whispers in a paper skin
Said nobody knows where the money has been
But a keyhole shines like a judgment eye
When you teach your hands how to live with a lie

[Pre-Chorus]
I heard my name in the hinge and the floor
I heard my breath ask, what are you for?

[Chorus]
The cabinet kept no secrets
It knew what a closed fist costs
I opened my hands before I lost
The man my mother raised
The cabinet kept no secrets
So I would not keep one too
I carried the green rain out of the dark
And gave the daylight through

[Verse 3]
There are easy roads with a ditch at the end
There are quiet sins that call themselves friends
I wrote no sermon, I rang no bell
Just gave back the ghost from the wooden well

[Bridge]
And maybe the world is a room full of drawers
With everyone checking the locks on yours
But somewhere a stranger can sleep tonight
Knowing one small door still opens right

[Guitar Solo]

[Final Chorus]
The cabinet kept no secrets
It knew what a closed fist costs
I opened my hands before I lost
The man my mother raised
The cabinet kept no secrets
So I would not keep one too
I carried the green rain out of the dark
And gave the daylight through

[Outro]
Old wood, old dust, old nickel smell
Some rooms remember when we choose well