King Tide Social

[Verse 1]
You hear that first board-up nail on the house on Gaston Street? A metronome tapping a beat for cold feet.
The NOAA radio is just a baritone sigh in a bed of pure static, this humidity's attic-thick, it's cinematic.
They say the whole district's a structural flaw, a beautiful ruin you can't fix with the law,
so let's test the load-bearing lies with your grandmother's silver, a toast to the river 'fore the pilings all shiver.
The forecast is biblical, a wrath-of-god stencil, they're boarding up history with a nail and a pencil,
but you got the keys to that spot by the water, the one with the porch rot, a real southern daughter's
last stand against reason and weather, this treason-and-termite season, we'll face it together.
Hold up, a call's comin' through—nah, forget it, it's you I needed, let's just let it ring, unheeded.

[Chorus]
We'll serve the champagne cold when the power grid dies,
and we'll toast to the high water with the salt in our eyes.
Gilded defiance, a grin on the brink,
watch the pluff mud reclaim it all, faster than you think.

[Verse 2]
They're taping the windows up, looks like a crime scene on Abercorn, a criss-cross pattern for a city reborn
as a headline tomorrow, a footnote of sorrow, we're just stealing this evening we can't beg or borrow.
Saw my whole face on a vinyl wrap peeling, at a truck stop in Hardeeville, it wasn't a real feeling.
Jameel texted "that you?" after three years of silence, that question felt violent, an artifact from a different climate.
He saw the facade and the glitch, the curated decay, dug me out of some algorithm's digital gray.
Still got that generator? The one that we gilded in the back of your father's condemned shed? Don't let it be unsaid,
let's light up the parlor and laugh at what's dreaded, leave the official warnings unread.

[Bridge]
I think the line's breaking up... static on the causeway...
You still there? It's just noise now, the city's last parlay.
Just tell me you're in. Before the cypress start to sway.

[Outro]
…call me back when you get this.
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