New Timber

[Chorus]
If they change every plank for this ship of my body
Adanna, tell me, am I still your somebody?
If they weld a new frame where the old one was weak
Is it still my name that you’re longing to speak?

[Verse 1]
(Spoken)
Log entry. October. The air here hangs thick enough to drink.
Smell of old rust and new paint from the Tin Can Island dry-dock.
They are stripping me down piece by piece, you see.
The foreman, he just smile, he say, "E go be like new, Oga Bayo."
But new for who?

[Chorus]
If they change every plank for this ship of my body
Adanna, tell me, am I still your somebody?
If they weld a new frame where the old one was weak
Is it still my name that you’re longing to speak?

[Verse 2]
(Spoken)
At 0400 hours, I read your old letters again.
Written to a boy who knew the stars by feeling, not just by bearing.
This new latitude of my mind… the pressure's different here.
And the man that you're waiting for… what if his signal faded out last year?

[Bridge]
Maybe the horizon line isn't a place we meet
Just the anchor point where memory and current greet.
And my heart is just a compass needle, shaking but true.
Steady pointing North… steady pointing you.

[Outro]
(Spoken)
New timber...
Same anchor chain.