Lyrics
You see that K-Mart deck leaned up on the shed,
every worn-down wheel a promise you both left unsaid.
Summer of '15, the air was a weight,
you drew a line in the pluff mud and sealed your own fate.
[Chorus]
So this is the victory, this is the prize,
a perfect foundation under somebody else's skies.
Yeah this is the winning, the proof in the stone,
so tell yourself why you're celebrating alone.
[Verse 2]
There's a postcard from Tokyo pinned to the fridge door,
right next to Lena's new render for the second floor.
His handwriting's hurried, a blueprint gone wild,
says he’s living the life you both drew as a child.
[Chorus]
So this is the victory, this is the prize,
a perfect foundation under somebody else's skies.
Yeah this is the winning, the proof in the stone,
so tell yourself why you're celebrating alone.
[Bridge]
He told you, "A foundation's just a beautiful cage."
You laughed it off then, and you turned the damn page.
[Outro]
Across the salt line.
You turned the page.
About Silas Veil
Silas Veil was raised on the Georgia coast, steeped in the Gullah Geechee traditions of his grandmother. His life, and his music, changed forever the night he met Lena, an architecture student, while playing his grandfather's 1962 Gretsch guitar in a Savannah dive bar. For eight years, their relationship has been his sole lyrical obsession, a slow-burn love story told through metaphors of…
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