JAZz Ho

Ho Who keeps time when the sea breaks meter? We do we don’t we bend the measure [Verse 1] Salt on the tongue, wire in the vein, Moon skips beats like a scratched refrain. Rope bites palm, the mast leans flat, Hull taps morse code: this is that. Compass drunk, spinning lies, North melts out of seven skies. Old words rot, new ones fray, Heave ho Delay decay. [Pre-Chorus] Clap it wrong, clap it late, Hands learn fear in five plus eight. If the song breaks, sing it bent, If the beat dies reinvent. [Chorus] Heave ho hold the noise Between the waves, between the choice Heave ho let it fall We don’t need sense we need it all Heave heave he ho [Verse 2] We learned the sea in major tones, She answers back in splintered moans. Anchor drops through shifting ground, Chain swings free won’t settle down. Brass cuts wind in crooked lines, Woodwinds coil around lost time. Every note a knife or prayer, Every rest a vacant stare. What do you haul when the charts are ash? Glitch and bone and backlash Who’s in charge when the pulse won’t stay? The crack, the slip, the delay [Break] drop the one miss the four feel the beat through the floor [Bridge] Trumpets riot with the tide, Clarinet won’t choose a side. Kick drum limps, then finds a spine, Polyrhythm snaps in crooked time. If the sea is code, corrupt the key, Play the error faithfully. Solo fear, go off the chart, That’s the map That’s the art. [Chorus] Heave ho hold the noise Between the waves, between the choice Heave ho cut the line We sail the crack in space and time Ho ho ho ho [Outro] Old song drowned, still breathing static, Human, broken, automatic. Row the void, row the scar, We’re not lost We are where the errors are. Heave… …ho.