Into The Flood Again

The levee held ‘til it didn’t anymore

We watched from the roof as the water tore

Through picture frames and unspoken plans

It took the couch, the porch, the wedding bands

You smiled like someone who already knew

That all of this life comes loose from the glue

I lit a match just to see your face

And we laughed like it wasn’t all being erased

And I go into the flood again

Wading through the weight of where we’ve been

There’s a part of me that still can’t swim

But I go in, yeah, I go in

Into the flood again

You left your boots by the cellar stair

Said, “Some things drown, and some just wear”

I took the long way back through town

Past the field where we first laid down

The trees remember, but the roads forgot

And the wind writes names that the mail does not

But I still feel you like a river bend

Turning back to the place it ends

So I go into the flood again

Chasing what was never mine to defend

There’s a silence in the undertow

Where you let go, yeah, you let go

And I went into the flood again

I tried to build a higher ground

With borrowed bricks and second sounds

But every time it rains like this

I swear I hear your voice in it

So I go into the flood again

Not to forget, but to feel again

I keep the light on in case you call

But it flickers, like it knows it all

Still I walk where the water’s been

Into the flood again

Yeah, I go in… into the flood again