Morgan Falls: Hydro-Power and Quiet Paths

Lyrics

[Intro]
There’s a path I know.
Down past the dog park.
Where the air gets cool, and heavy with the river.

[Verse 1]
I hear you before I see you, Morgan Falls.
A steady breath.
They poured your concrete heart in nineteen-oh-four.
A wall to hold the Chattahoochee.
A wager against the current.
And behind you, a quiet gift.
A still water named for a girl.
Lake Emma, holding the afternoon sky.

[Chorus]
You’re a sleeping giant.
A battery for the grid.
Waiting for the city to call, for the lights to dim.
You're a peak power promise, a low industrial hum.
And you're the quiet paths where we all come.
To forget the hum.

[Verse 2]
A red kayak slips from the non-motorized launch.
Not a ripple, not a sound.
A man on the fishing pier, he’s been there for hours.
Just watching the line.
He feels the cool spray drift up from the spillway.
He doesn't think about the turbines.
Or the Georgia Railway and Power Company.
He just thinks about the bass.

[Chorus]
You’re a sleeping giant.
A battery for the grid.
Waiting for the city to call, for the lights to dim.
You're a peak power promise, a low industrial hum.
And you're the quiet paths where we all come.
To forget the hum.

[Bridge]
Such a strange and gentle bargain.
This piece of the last century.
Built for work, for kilowatts, for progress.
Becomes a place of rest.
A place to just… be.

[Outro]
The water finds its level.
The day finds its end.
Nineteen-oh-four feels a long way away.
Just a quiet hum.