Verse 1
Teresa, you were my little sister
But life didn’t give us enough time
We found each other near the ending
When your smile started living inside my mind
You’d come around the shop with your little boy
And somehow those small moments meant everything
We were learning how to be sisters
Just as life was slipping through our hands
Pre-Chorus
I didn’t know those days were borrowed
I didn’t know goodbye was so close
Chorus
I took you on your last ride to the ocean
Watched your eyes light up at the view
Like the waves were singing just for you
And the sky knew something I never knew
I wish I’d taken more pictures
Held on tighter to every laugh
Now I replay your voice in my memory
Trying to bring those moments back
Verse 2
I’m sorry I never told you enough
How much I loved you, how much I cared
I’m sorry for the ways I acted
For the hurt I never stopped to repair
I still remember your face that day
The way you smiled seeing the ocean for the first time
Pure joy dancing in your eyes
A memory I carry for all my life
Pre-Chorus
And there are nights I still go back
Wishing I could rewrite the past
Chorus
I took you on your last ride to the ocean
Never knowing it would be goodbye
If I had known, I would’ve stayed longer
Would’ve held your hand through the night
I wish I never cancelled that appointment
Maybe you’d still be here somehow
But that’s a weight I carry forever
A silence I don’t know how to drown out
Bridge
I wasn’t there the day you left us
And that pain still breaks me in two
I keep wondering if you felt alone
If you knew how much I loved you
But I pray you felt my heart beside you
Even when I couldn’t be there
Final Chorus
Baby sister, I still talk to you
When the world gets quiet and dark
I still see your smile by the ocean
Still carry you close in my heart
And one day when my time is over
I know I’ll find you waiting there
And I’ll hug and hold you once more
Like we never lost those years
Outro
Teresa…
The ocean still reminds me of you
And every wave brings me back
To our last ride together.
