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STINGRAY
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Intro
Matheson Hammock, 1 a.m., tide breathing. Don't put your hand in the water. I know.
Verse 1
She walk in, the bar drop ten degrees, glasses sweat, jukebox skip, nobody breathe. Ain't seen her face, felt the room rearrange, ice melt backwards, the fans turn the way she came. Candle lean toward where she from, Stingray in shallow, gliding, no sound. Que bolá, I tell her, flat as the bay, hand already reaching while my mouth say stay.
Pre-chorus
Shuffle your feet, don't step, just slide, the pretty ones bury the blade in the tide. I know what you are, still drift to the scar.
Chorus
Stingray, stingray, glide on through, I see the barb, baby, I still reach for you. Sweetest water hide the deepest sting, Beautiful thing, dangerous thing, same thing. Same thing. Stingray, stingray, don't pretend I knew the wound and I waded in.
Post-chorus
Glide on, glide on, same thing.
Verse 2
She don't enter rooms, change weather, parking-lot lamp flick when we together. Valet drop the ticket, the palms hold breath, US-1 quiet, the cars know death. Felt her on Brickell 'fore my own chest, elevator mirror fog before she pressed. Venom in her wake, I'm swimming back in, I don't ask what she did, just where she been.
Post-chorus
Glide on, glide on, same thing.
Verse 3
Three a.m. on the rocks, moon do her work, she ankle-deep in glass, me ankle-deep in hurt. I said nah, that's a lie I'm in past my knees, salt up to my ribs, begging the breeze. What kind of man see the barb and lean down? Kind that like the whole ocean go quiet around. She look back over her shoulder, the bay go ill.
Pre-chorus
Don't step, just slide, they said, just slide, I stepped, I stepped, now the warm turn wide. Don't know your name but I'd follow your scar.
Chorus
Stingray, stingray, glide on through, Barb in the water, I still reach for you. beautiful thing, dangerous thing, same thing. I knew the wound and I waded in.
Verse 4
Lifeguard tower empty, nobody to warn, just me and the gold thing 'fore the storm. Hialeah down the Palmetto, ventanita cold, walked past the warning the wet sand told, shuffle your feet, I reached out my hand, dangerous and easy, the worst kind of true, flat, gold, and quiet, and I'm reaching through.
Bridge
Here. Right here. The water go still. You felt me before you saw me, didn't you. Beautiful thing. Dangerous thing. Same thing. I knew the wound and I waded in.
Verse 5
Barb in my palm, calmer than before, salt in the cut, I'd swim it back for more. She glide off gold into dark Biscayne, left her venom like a chain I wear. Tell the young ones at the Hammock when water flat, that's the prettiest danger, you reaching for that.
Pre-chorus
No shuffle now, no slide, just down, The warm close over me, no sound, I know, I know, baby, I know what you are I'd do it again, drift to the scar.
Chorus
Stingray, stingray, glide on through, I saw the barb and I reached for you. Sweetest water hide the deepest sting, beautiful thing, dangerous thing, same thing. Same thing. Stingray, stingray, don't pretend I knew the wound and I waded in.
Post-chorus
Glide on, glide on, same thing.
Outro
Tide breathing out. Still reaching.
Inside the recording
Matheson Hammock, 1 a.m., tide breathing. Don't put your hand in the water. I know.
Shuffle your feet, don't step, just slide, the pretty ones bury the blade in the tide.
Tide breathing out. Still reaching.
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Song record
Published facts.
- Release date of this source
- July 3, 2026
- This source on YouTube · Eastern
- July 2, 2026
- Playlist addition · Eastern
- Not recorded
- Duration
- 4:00
- YouTube views
- 837
- Catalog source video ID
- d8y0t2-Ud_s
Original Music Diary
Where this song entered the catalog.
- Release type
- Single
- Date added
- June 8, 2026
- Status
- live