The Hepburns

What Was Not Became What Was

Album: Architecture Of The Ages [Feat. Estella Rosa] [2021]
Author: Matthew David Jones © Elefant Publishing

The barnacles upon their hats

And their three-hundred-year-old cats

Long hair and fingernails

Peeking out of the gunwales

The seaweed dried up on their coats

Like the songs stuck in their throats

 

Amidst the remnants of old crews

I misheard the Silver Jews

I thought what Berman said was this:

“What is not but could be is”

In the stairwell between floors

What was not became what was

 

Listening to the sailor ghosts

Listening to their mournful toasts

Long hair and fingernails

Covered with moss and scales

Singing about what they miss

When they could laugh and drink and kiss

 

I was enjoying the sea views

When I misheard the Silver Jews

I thought what Berman said was this:

“What is not but could be is”

In the stairwell between floors

What was not became what was