Nobody says it

**[Verse]** Grew up here, salt in my lungs and my blood Been forty years since the first girl was lost My mother knew her, said it quiet at the door "That's just the water," she said, "it happens, nothing more" **[Verse]** His father wore the badge before he did Same last name, same lies, same secrets he hid They found another one, spring of '09 Case closed by morning, no reason, no sign **[Pre-Chorus]** Everybody knows and nobody says We bury the truth with the ones that we lay Pass it down quiet, father to son Just the way it's always been done **[Chorus]** Small town, quiet coast We don't talk about the ones we lost Sleep tight, say a prayer Nobody's coming, nobody's there **[Verse]** They dragged the bay for a week, called off by Friday Her mother still leaves the porch light on every night Deputies laughed at the diner, ate their pie Said "some girls just run," said "some girls just die" **[Verse]** I'm 44 now, still walk these same streets Still nod at the badge when he's stood right in front of me My friends daughter plays out where the tide comes in high And I tell her be careful, but I don't say why **[Verse]** Her name still hangs on my old church wall Candle lit every year, though nobody talks at all I was just a kid when they found her on my road Been thirty years and I still can't let it go **[Bridge]** I almost said it once, out loud, at the door Watched his cruiser roll by, didn't say anymore Thirty years of silence, and I'm still the same Just another local who won't say the name **[Chorus - reprise, higher stakes]** Small town, quiet coast We don't talk about the ones we lost Sleep tight, say a prayer Nobody's coming, nobody's there **[Outro]** Same badge, same road, same tide comes in Nothing ever ends, it just begins again