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, the weeknights easier to take
When you kissed me on the mouth, the law was ours

We slipped past the mansions, on Riverside, by the shore
You lit up Shoe Lane, 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 once 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 the 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