Lyrics
You found that old spirit-level from '08 in the sawdust bin.
The bubble's dry, the glass is cracked, doesn't tell you where the true has been.
You try to shim the new front door but the mortise just fights the frame.
Something's off by a thirty-second, but you call it by the same name.
[Chorus]
Is it the same boat, babe, if every plank is new?
Just the ghost of the water that we were sailing through?
[Verse 2]
At Buffington Harbor you swore, "I'll never change," on that rusty pier.
The wind off the lake had an iron smell, a different kind of year.
Now you talk about your 401k, the torque spec on your tires.
And I'm just watching the embers, trying to remember the fires.
[Chorus]
Is it the same boat, babe, if every plank is new?
Just the ghost of the water that we were sailing through?
[Bridge]
We replaced the rot, we braced the hull, we patched up every leak.
But the original blueprint of 'us' is a language we don't speak.
[Chorus]
(Is it the same boat, babe... if every plank is new?)
(Just a memory of the water... we were sailing through?)
[Outro]
The 9:15 freight train rattles the floorboards...
Gone.
About Bill Wexler
Bill Wexler builds things. By day, he works as a carpenter in Gary, Indiana, the city where he was born and raised. By night, he builds songs from the quiet, ordinary moments of his life: the hum of a freight train, the weight of a toolbox, the challenge of raising his teenage daughter, Maya. He had Maya when he was 18, and his minimalist soul music is a plainspoken chronicle of a decade spent…
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