Sometimes you can hear it like a rhythm through the crickets 

And the hum of the cars as they motor towards the beach 

Hovering on the water like a ripple of the moon 

On an eight foot tide, and the lights of the Lumina 

Shine from the screen that they stuck up in the water 

Children stare at movie stars who float above the sea 

Tobacco barn smoke and a scary walk home 

Spanish moss blowing like bodies in the trees 

All the folks who loved this dirt still stay 

In the breeze and in the shadows, they live here 

They never go away 

And my Grandma's dad is out there 

Where the road turns into drawbridge 

Swinging his old lantern every time that there's a storm 

And that woman that he widowed 

That's my Mamaw all around us 

Making sure her babies are all proud, and strong, and warm 

And their pictures, they're not faded 

They're hung up and they're framed 

Staring down at children who are proud to wear their names 

And one day I will stand beside them whispering 

Whispering, whispering to you my love 

I grew up with the stories of the storms 

Rain in the house and an angry sea 

But they were country proud, country tough 

And Hazel only made it halfway up the bluff 

When the Depression hit they held on and fought 

They worked when they could and ate what they caught 

So this little piece of rundown land 

Is where I sleep, and pray, and stand 

All the ghosts, the marsh, the storms, and me 

We sleep in the azaleas 

We rise above and breathe 

And my Grandma's dad is out there 

Where the road turns into drawbridge 

Swinging his old lantern every time that there's a storm 

And that woman that he widowed 

That's my Mamaw all around us 

Making sure her babies are all proud, and strong, and warm 

And their pictures, they're not faded 

They're hung up and they're framed 

Staring down at children who are proud to wear their names 

And one day I will stand beside them whispering 

Whispering, whispering to you my love 

One day I will stand beside them whispering 

Whispering, whispering to you my love 

My family's whispering 

Richard and Jack, Austin and Joyce 

Snookie, Doris Ellen, all in one voice 

Mama and Dad, Jolyon and Bud 

Singing all night beside the Summer Rest mud 

Colin and Rachael, Amanda and Jay 

Firework nights and hide and seek days 

Mamac and Mamaw cooking in the kitchen 

All of us cousins crabbing and fishing