Trophic Cascade

[Verse 1]
That Waffle House coffee tastes like copper on my tongue,
Saw the Daufuskie ferry cut a line out past the sun.
It's just past three on a Tuesday, humidity on the glass,
Told myself the quiet was a symptom that would pass.
Cataloging casualties with clinical detachment,
Zippin' up the body bag on what you said had happened.
Told my friends the ecosystem self-corrected, pathogenic,
I just pruned a dying branch, that's just basic plant genetics.

[Chorus]
Got the keys, got the quiet, got the last word.
So why's the silence in this big old house sound so absurd?
Yeah I got the keys, got the quiet, got the last word.
Planted my flag on this pluff mud, feeling undisturbed.

[Verse 2]
Remember that old Gullah story 'bout the man with two faces?
You used to get so spooked, I'd trace his grin in empty spaces.
I pulled that ghost out on the porch that night in late October,
A low-tide weapon, knew the argument was over.
"Don't you bring my people into this," is what your text said later,
Too late, the mycelial network crowned me the perpetrator.
I won the war by salting all the earth around the trenches,
Now I'm sittin' on the throne, just me and all my stenches.

[Chorus]
Got the keys, got the quiet, got the last word.
So why's the silence in this big old house sound so absurd?
Yeah I got the keys, got the quiet, got the last word.
Planted my flag on this pluff mud, feeling undisturbed.

(BEAT SWITCH)

[Bridge]
A trophic cascade when the apex leaves the biome,
The victor writes the history, I'm writing mine in loam.
Check the pH of my victory, it's acidic and it's bitter,
Everything I wanted, now the whole damn room just glitters
with the dust of what I broke to get it.

[Outro]
Yeah. I got the last word.
Guess I'm the only one who heard.