Hull Name

[Verse 1]
Saw a ghost of me by the Oglethorpe monument, July '14,
Heat breathing off the cobblestones, thought the rosin dust was clean.
Still believed my future was written in polished, sacred bone,
Still thought the resonance I wanted was a note I'd play alone.
Every plank of the plan I laid then is gone now, it's debris,
Pulled up and replaced with a timber I got for free.
The direction is different, the compass is spun wrong in degrees,
But the tide's pulling out to the same damn haunted seas.

[Chorus]
I replaced all the floorboards, I changed up the door locks,
Put a new coat of paint on the dry-rotted frame.
If the silhouette's mine when it pulls into your docks,
Is it still the same vessel if I gilded the name?

[Verse 2]
Last night I parked a Cullinan, the leather smelled like a trust fund,
The starlight roof was a gorgeous lie, the only one.
Remember Professor Adler saying, "Kai, this gift is a rare one,
Don't you dare trade the concert hall for a kick and a snare drum."
Well, this 808 is a load-bearing column that holds up the ceiling,
And this auto-tune's covering cracks in the vocal façade.
I'm not mourning the loss, man, it's a curious feeling,
Like I'm reading the detailed blueprints of a much stranger god.

[Chorus]
I replaced all the floorboards, I changed up the door locks,
Put a new coat of paint on the dry-rotted frame.
If the silhouette's mine when it pulls into your docks,
Is it still the same vessel if I gilded the name?

[Bridge]
Every nail I pulled out was a promise I made to a child.
Every new board I hammered was a secret I learned to keep.

[Outro]
Is it still the same vessel... if I gilded the name?
Just gilded the name...