Lyrics
If I swap out every new plank, is it still your ship?
And if I brace the frame again, does it still fit the slip?
[Verse 1]
You left your coffee on the sill of the Frankford casement, Tuesday.
The ceramic's gone cold to the touch, and I know what you're gonna say.
You're taking a fine-grit paper to the years we put in slow,
Just sanding down the good parts 'til there's nothing left below.
[Chorus]
If I swap out every new plank, is it still your ship?
And if I brace the frame again, does it still fit the slip?
[Verse 2]
Gussie told me, "Sweet boy, a boat remembers the tide."
She'd run her thumb on cypress wood where the salt had bled and dried.
But you draw your elevations, try to reason with the sea,
And you want to pull the rotten boards without ever asking me.
[Bridge]
We scraped the barnacles off the hull that Sunday in July.
Is this a rescue, baby... or is this a goodbye?
[Outro]
The same keel...
Still the same sea?
About Barry Whyte
Barry Whyte learned piano at the knee of his grandmother, Gussie, in the Gullah Geechee heartland of coastal South Carolina. At 20, he took a one-way bus ticket to Philadelphia, seeking the sound of the city's soul tradition. His music is the conversation between those two worlds: the Lowcountry's tidal patience and Philly's concrete grit. He still works as an accompanist at a dance studio…
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