Lyrics
Two AM, the rain smell on the Flat Shoals blacktop.
Cold winch hook in my palm, feel the whole mechanism lock.
Dragging up a silver Civic, another deep-debt shipwreck.
The city's a dark current, just a paycheck to a paycheck.
Streetlights bleedin' orange, like a channel marker's glow.
Steerin' through the quiet where the real stories grow.
This ain't the kinda water that'll ever wash you clean.
It’s just a saltwater lesson in a broke-down machine.
[Chorus]
This that surface tension, holdin' me just above it.
Prayed for a big wave, didn't know how much I'd love it.
Yeah, that surface tension, waitin' on the crashin' sound.
'Fore the undertow comes and pulls the whole thing down.
[Verse 2]
Then I see a porch light, phone screen cuttin' through the gloom.
A kid in a gray hoodie makin' my whole world a room.
Heard the ratchet clickin', saw him squintin' at the rig.
Guess my profile picture's finally gotten too big.
He put his cigarette down, I saw his knuckles go white.
Stared right at my face underneath the single work light.
He said, "Ayo... ain't you Deacon Keyz?" voice low, kinda cracked.
My whole past life submerged, man, there ain't no comin' back.
[Chorus]
This that surface tension, holdin' me just above it.
Prayed for a big wave, didn't know how much I'd love it.
Yeah, that surface tension, waitin' on the crashin' sound.
'Fore the undertow comes and pulls the whole thing down.
[Bridge]
(BEAT SWITCH)
Maya, this that deep-end swimmin', this that gasp for air.
So you can stand on dry land, build a kingdom from a prayer.
These piano keys ain't nothin' but a lock I gotta pick.
To get us to a harbor where the current ain't this thick.
[Outro]
The engine's hummin' low now.
A new tide, comin' slow now.
About Deacon Keyz
Deacon Keyz learned to play piano in his grandmother's East Atlanta church, but life had other plans. At 18, the birth of his daughter Maya put his musical dreams on hold for a decade of warehouse shifts and late-night tow truck runs. His music is made in the hours after she's asleep, blending sanctified organ loops with the sound of the city he navigates every day. These are lullabies from the…
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