Dry Dock

[Verse 1]
The Bath Iron Works crane is a skeleton against the dusk
And I’m tracing the new scar above your left eye, Leo
You smell like engine oil now, not the cold Atlantic musk
And the fog over the Kennebec is telling me a lie

[Pre-Chorus]
I read in a book from the old ship logs
About a vessel in the deep Aegean Sea
They replaced every board, every splintered spar and cog
But the name on the bow stayed there for the port to see
And they argued for years in the dust and the sun
If the journey still counted, if the memory was won

[Chorus]
So don't you dare tell me you're him
Don't you wear his goddamn skin
This isn't love, it's taxidermy
And you're not the man who left me

[Verse 2]
You take your coffee black, you used to drown it sweet
The tide chart's on an app now, not tacked up on the wall
Your hands feel wrong in mine on this frozen cobblestone street
And you didn't even flinch at that last winter squall

[Pre-Chorus]
I read in a book from the old ship logs
About a vessel in the deep Aegean Sea
They replaced every board, every splintered spar and cog
But the name on the bow stayed there for the port to see
And they argued for years in the dust and the sun
If the journey still counted, if the memory was won

[Chorus]
So don't you dare tell me you're him
Don't you wear his goddamn skin
This isn't love, it's taxidermy
And you're not the man who left me

[Bridge]
That first November you were gone, you wrote, "I'm keeping every piece."
Did you mean your heart, or the net-share from the haul?
Maybe forgetting is a mercy, a long and quiet fall

[Outro]
Just another ghost ship answering the tide's slow call.
Just another ghost.