PIER NINE [Spoken Intro] Attention all vessels… Welcome to Pier Nine. Please disregard any distress signals. All missing vessels… Are accounted for. ⸻ [Verse 1] Every berth was occupied. Still they cleared a space inside. Every line was tied in place. Before we’d ever reached the bay. Every sailor stepped ashore. Like we’d done the walk before. Every stranger knew my name. Like they’d carved it on my grave. ⸻ [Pre-Hook] Every name was called ashore. Voices answered… one name more. Every harbor held its breath. Waiting on another death. ⸻ [Hook] Pier Nine… tie your lines. Every voyage splits in time. Home ashore… lost at sea… Both are true eternally. Pier Nine… ring the bell. Every soul has two farewells. Home ashore… lost at sea… Both are true eternally. ⸻ [Verse 2] Every log was stamped complete. Before we’d left the open sea. Every page described the storm. Like the ink had watched it form. Calling from somewhere out there. Every voice we knew too well. Every word we hadn’t said… Came from sailors already dead. ⸻ [Verse 3] Every child we left behind… Met us bent with silver time. Called us fathers. Called us sons. Older eyes… familiar ones. Every wrinkle wore our name. Every tear recalled the same. Yesterday still lived in me. Half a century… at sea. ⸻ [Bridge] A bell rang from a shattered mast. Somewhere trapped inside the past. A mayday cracked across the foam. Calling every sailor home. Then I looked into the tide. Our own wreck was passing by. Still fighting the storm we’d crossed… Already counted among the lost. ⸻ [Instrumental] [Dock bells echo across the harbor.] [Steel drums carry the melody.] [Slide guitar answers.] [Ghost crew chant softly.] Tie… your… lines… [Radio static rises.] ⸻ [Final Hook] Pier Nine… tie your lines. Every voyage splits in time. Home ashore… lost at sea… Both are true eternally. Pier Nine… ring the bell. Every soul has two farewells. Home ashore… lost at sea… Both are true eternally. ⸻ [Spoken Outro] Attention all vessels… Your arrival… Has been recorded. Your voyage… Is still in progress. The harbor… Never closes.
