Waterlogged Lyrics

Remember the nights

On the water in Newport News

By the bridge

With the lion's head roaring at you

We'd slip down the bank

The James River at our feet

The swirling air

Brought the smell of Smithfield

To our little beach

And the malt liquor we drank

Made weeknights easier to take

When you kissed me on the mouth

The law was ours

We walked past the mansions

On Riverside by the shore

You lit up Shoe Lane

The streetlights crystalized your form

In Tidewater light, this all seems so long ago

In Tidewater light, seven cities all our own

In Tidewater light, when I still recognized myself

In Tidewater light, we'll be crossing water to get back home

Waterless port

Our own brick boxes beyond the square

When broken hearts

Were far less complicated and fair

We could drink them off

Stay in one place and feel secured

If man made Lake Maury

We showed it how to be pure

And it seems we only speak

In nostalgia anymore

I've found train tracks through woods

In every state

We took expensive papers

Back to a home that wasn't ours

It's not what we'd hoped

Our time and place is waterlogged

In Tidewater light, this all seems so long ago

In Tidewater light, seven cities all our own

In Tidewater light, when I still recognized myself

In Tidewater light, we'll be crossing water to get back home