Lyrics
The Osprey Cafe mug has a chip on the lip,
right where you put your mouth at 4:18 AM.
You trace the osprey, faded blue and gray,
and try not to hear the Green Line shake the window frame.
You tell yourself the warmth that seeps into your palm
is from the coffee, not the ghost of being calm.
[Chorus]
(Second vocalist enters, ethereal harmony)
You tell yourself it's ballast, not an anchor,
a piece of home you hold to keep you true.
[Verse 2]
Remember drinking from it on the dock,
the smell of diesel fuel and morning rot.
Your father squinting at the new day's sun,
"The tide won't wait for worry, not for anyone."
Last month a friend here picked it up to wash,
and said, "It's just a cup," and you felt the whole world hush.
[Chorus]
(Second vocalist, more present)
You tell yourself it's ballast, not an anchor,
a piece of home you hold to keep you true.
[Bridge]
(Tempo and intensity build, lead vocal strains)
But some nights the foghorn from the harbor here
sounds just like the one you had to leave to disappear.
And you grip the handle 'til your knuckles bleach,
and home is just a word you cannot reach.
[Outro]
(Music recedes, just fingerpicked guitar and vocal)
Yeah, you tell yourself it's ballast.
Not an anchor.
About Silas Carrick
Silas Carrick grew up on Monhegan Island, Maine, a remote fishing outpost with a year-round population of 64. He learned to play on a beat-up banjo he found in the back of the island's one-room library during a winter storm that cut them off from the mainland. Now based in Boston, his songs are dispatches from the space between two worlds: the tidal rhythms of his past and the relentless hum of…
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