Sink Back Down

Cicadas talking in the heat again

Air so thick it sticks to skin

You say my name like it’s a spell

Like I forgot how deep I fell

River don’t rush, neither do I

I learned the truth by staying alive

You stand there thinking I might bend

But I don’t live where I been

Sink back down, don’t rise up here

This ground knows what I buried

Sink back down, stay where you lie

I walked out clean, I survived

I don’t circle, I don’t wait

I don’t dance with yesterday

Sink back down

Sink back down

Spanish moss on an old regret

Hanging where I left you at

You talk slow, you talk sweet

Same old song, same old need

My feet remember every mile

Every lie dressed up to smile

I don’t hate you, I don’t fight

I just don’t step back into that night

Sink back down, don’t rise up here

This water don’t forget

Sink back down, don’t reach for me

I’m not who you remember me to be

I don’t circle, I don’t wait

I don’t kneel to yesterday

Sink back down

Sink back down

Hypnotized ain’t love

It’s just staying too long

I broke the spell when I walked on

Sink back down, stay in the mud

I crossed that line, I found my blood

Sink back down, don’t call my name

I won’t answer, not the same

I don’t linger, I don’t drown

I learned how to walk out

Moon low, water still

Night knows my will

I don’t turn, I don’t slow

I let the swamp take what I let go

Sink back down.