Sand Between My Fingers

[Verse 1]
Salt on my lips
Sand in my lungs
I taste the past
On the tip of my tongue
Heard a thousand futures
Whisper my name
But every bright vision
Still ends the same
[Pre-Chorus]
How do you hold a storm
In the hollow of your hand
How do you love one man
And carry all his lands
[Chorus]
I was not made for a throne of dust
I was made for love
For blood
For trust
But the tide of time pulls you from me
Like water from stone
Like breath from the sea
If you become the breaking of worlds
Will you remember this one desert girl
When the sky burns
When the stars shake free
Will there be room in your ruin
For me
[Verse 2]
You speak in omens
Eyes far away
I feel you drifting
Year by year
Day by day
They kneel when you’re walking
Call you their fate
I’m just the heartbeat
Pounding against your cage
[Pre-Chorus]
You say there’s no other path
That the sand has set it all
But who holds you when you wake
Crying from the fall
[Chorus]
I was not made for a throne of dust
I was made for love
For blood
For trust
But the tide of time pulls you from me
Like water from stone
Like breath from the sea
If you become the breaking of worlds
Will you remember this one desert girl
When the sky burns
When the stars shake free
Will there be room in your ruin
For me
[Bridge]
You promise
“One day” (one day)
But the years feel sharp
Cutting lines through your face
Through my heart
If I stand at the edge
Of your endless war
Will you know my hands
If they’re stained like yours
[Chorus]
I was not made for a throne of dust
I was made for love
For blood
For trust
But the tide of time pulls you from me
Like water from stone
Like breath from the sea
If you become the breaking of worlds
Will you remember this one desert girl
When the sky burns
When the stars shake free
Will there be room in your ruin
For me
[Outro]
When your name is a prayer
On a million tongues
I’ll still be the silence
Where you first came undone
If you lose yourself
In the weight of your dreams
Follow the tears through the dunes
Back to me (back to me)

Cinematic orchestral pop with expansive strings, war drums, and deep choirs under a soaring, heartwrenching female vocal; verses stay intimate with piano and distant low brass, choruses explode with full orchestra and stacked harmonies, bridge strips back to near-acapella over subtle drones before a final sky-high chorus and bittersweet, echoing outro, female vocals