**Verse I (Clean / hushed)** You arrived like weather I couldn’t outrun A slow change in the pressure of my lungs I learned your shape in the negative space Between what you promised and what you erased I carried your quiet like salt in my blood Every word you withheld became a flood You stood at the shoreline, perfectly dry While I learned how to drown without crying **Pre-Chorus (Clean)** I called it patience, I called it grace But love shouldn’t feel like erosion **Chorus (Clean)** I loved you the way the moon loves the tide Pulling myself apart just to feel you arrive I waited in pieces for you to decide If I was worth the return or the rise If this was devotion, it asked too much If this was faith, it forgot my name I gave you my depth, you gave me your distance And called it the same --- **Verse II (Clean)** You spoke in omens, never in truth Left me decoding the absence of you I read your silence like scripture and sign Every pause another reason I tried I bent like branches in borrowed storms Held my breath to keep you warm But trees don’t bloom where the roots are starved They just learn how to break quietly **Pre-Chorus II (Half-scream, restrained)** I was not healing I was being worn --- **Chorus II (Clean → Grit)** I loved you like a vow I made alone (***ALONE***) Like a temple with no god inside (***EMPTY***) I kept the fire, you kept the ash (***YOU LEFT ME***) I gave you the ocean— ***YOU TOOK THE TIDE*** --- ### **Bridge / Breakdown (FULL SCREAMS)** ***I LET THE WATER TAKE MY SHAPE*** ***YOU LET IT TAKE MY NAME*** ***I BLED IN CURRENTS YOU NEVER FELT*** ***YOU CALLED THE DEPTH A GAME*** ***YOU DON’T GET MY HORIZON*** ***YOU DON’T GET MY SLEEP*** ***YOU DON’T GET TO STAND ON SHORE*** ***AND CALL ME WEAK*** *(instruments fall away)* ***I AM NOT THE SEA FOR YOU*** --- **Final Chorus (Clean + Layered Screams)** I loved you like the night loves flame (***IT ALWAYS BURNS***) Close enough to die for it (***I DIED FOR YOU***) But tides remember every wound (***EVERY WOUND***) And still they learn to turn away If this is love, it learns to end (***IT ENDS HERE***) If this is faith, I choose myself (***I CHOOSE ME***) --- **Outro** The water’s calm The pull is gone I leave my name Where you can’t reach it ---

THE TIDE THAT LEARNED MY NAME