No one owes a boat

[Verse 1: Female] The ledger’s still beneath the counter Its pages turned the color of the years The final entry’s dated March And after March, no one wrote a thing [Verse 1: Male] Half the people who owed me left this town The ones I owed have gone away The rest could pay me back by now But no one comes to ask [Pre-Chorus: Duet] They made the harbor into a square There are no accounts to settle there [Chorus: Duet] Let’s say we’ve paid it all Let’s say we’ve paid it all No one owes a boat to anyone No one owes a winter to anyone Let’s say we’ve paid it all [Verse 2: Duet] I keep the book to make no claim Just to remember how it was A whole streetful of neighbors then Each owing, each waiting for the other [Pre-Chorus: Duet] They made the harbor into a square There are no accounts to settle there [Chorus: Duet] Let’s say we’ve paid it all Let’s say we’ve paid it all No one owes a boat to anyone No one owes a winter to anyone Let’s say we’ve paid it all