The Water Keeps a Ledger

Intro

Mm-mm

Mm-mm-hmm

Oh-oh

Verse 1

Woke up to a wire at the end of the bed

Message from a stranger with the shape of my dread

Coffee gone cold and the window left wide

Someone walked through the fog and stepped inside

They said twenty-one below and the river runs still

Every current has a name and every flood a will

I traced the map with a trembling hand

Found the mark where the water meets the land

Pre-Chorus

And if the tide comes calling

I won't turn the key

The flood knows my number

And it's calling me

Chorus

Twenty-one below

Where the deep keeps its hold

Twenty-one below

Every secret turns to cold

Down where the light forgets

Down where the sound can't go

I'll meet you twenty-one below

Post-Chorus

Below below

Below below below

Oh the water knows

Verse 2

The neighbor on the pier said she saw it rise

A silver spine cutting through the moonlit skies

She laughed it off but her hands shook fine

She knows the river keeps accounts in time

Old man at the dock with a lantern and a rope

Swears he counted every shadow in the scope

He said don't you dive where the reeds grow tall

That's where the river writes its ledger for us all

Pre-Chorus

And if the fog comes rolling

I won't look away

The deep has my shadow

And it wants to stay

Chorus

Twenty-one below

Where the deep keeps its hold

Twenty-one below

Every secret turns to cold

Down where the light forgets

Down where the sound can't go

I'll meet you twenty-one below

Post-Chorus

Below below

Below below below

Oh the water knows

Bridge

Counting down the fathoms

One to twenty-one

Every drop a story

Every story sung

Guitar Solo

Final Chorus

Twenty-one below

Where the deep keeps its hold

Twenty-one below

Every secret turns to cold

Down where the light forgets

Down where the sound can't go

I'll meet you twenty-one below

Outro

Below

Below

Below below below

Oh the water knows