[Verse 1]
Salt on my lips
Still taste the pier air
Closed my eyes once
Now I wake up nowhere
Sunburnt wristband
Faded on my nightstand
Cheap shells, keychains
Rattlin’ in my cold hand
Mama in the screen door
Yellin’ “y’all come eat”
Now it’s sirens out the window
Echo through the weak heat
I scroll for that shoreline
In a concrete phone glow
Try to stream that sunset
But the feed moves slow
[Chorus]
I’m haunted by them Gulf Coast ghosts
They ride my back when the night wind blows
Palms in my veins, can’t let ‘em go
I left that state, but it owns my soul
Orange sky drip on a motel sign
I chase that hue, fall outta time
I’m homesick hard for a place I know
I left that state, but it owns my soul (yeah)
[Verse 2]
Hot rain, car wash
Thunder on the tin roof
Now it’s dry heat, cracked lips
Different kind of bad truth
Grandma on the front porch
Bible and a bug light
Now I’m prayin’ to a streetlamp
Flicker in the smog night
Miss that drive-thru sweet tea
Styrofoam, wet ice
Here it’s all steel and screen
Everything too precise
I rap to my reflection
See the skyline smear
Every glitch in this glass
Showin’ what ain’t here (yeah)
[Chorus]
I’m haunted by them Gulf Coast ghosts
They ride my back when the night wind blows
Palms in my veins, can’t let ‘em go
I left that state, but it owns my soul
Orange sky drip on a motel sign
I chase that hue, fall outta time
I’m homesick hard for a place I know
I left that state, but it owns my soul (owns my soul)
[Bridge]
[Beat stutters, bass swells, scratched vocal chops]
Whole map in my mind
Panhandle to the pine line
Every mile marker
Still marked in my timeline
Tell ‘em I’m grown
But I talk like back home
Every “y’all” that I drop
Sound like I’m callin’ that coast (hey)
[Chorus]
I’m haunted by them Gulf Coast ghosts
They ride my back when the night wind blows
Palms in my veins, can’t let ‘em go
I left that state, but it owns my soul
Orange sky drip on a motel sign
I chase that hue, fall outta time
I’m homesick hard for a place I know
I left that state, but it owns my soul (oh)
I left that state, but it owns my soul