The Ledger Underwater

Intro

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Verse 1

Cold water on my boots

Boots wet from the loch

Faded map in my back pocket

Names I can barely talk

Saw a ripple off the pier

Saw a shadow slip and slide

Logged it in my field guide

Twenty-one names deep inside

Pre-Chorus

Every ripple tells a story

Every wave has got a tongue

And I keep the count in pencil

Till my counting comes undone

Chorus

Twenty-one below

Twenty-one below

Down where the water holds its breath

Twenty-one below

Twenty-one below

Every lake keeps its secret yet

Verse 2

Old man at the dock said

"Son don't fish past dark"

Something in the reeds there

Leaves its teeth marks on the bark

Boat hummed and the engine stalled

Fog rolled in like a hand

I never told my mother

What I saw along the sand

Pre-Chorus

Every ripple tells a story

Every wave has got a tongue

But I swear I heard it breathing

Where the cattails come undone

Chorus

Twenty-one below

Twenty-one below

Down where the water holds its breath

Twenty-one below

Twenty-one below

Every lake keeps its secret yet

Bridge

Humpback off the shoreline

Black fin against the gray

Old maps and old men warn you

But the young just want to stay

Seven summers counting

Seven winters gone

Twenty-one below the surface

Twenty-one still holding on

Final Chorus

Twenty-one below

Twenty-one below

I keep the ledger by my bed

Twenty-one below

Twenty-one below

Someday I'll find what they all said

Outro

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Twenty-one

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