Tidal Wave

Empty hallways echo where we used to be,

Pictures in my palm keep washing out of me.

I trace the edge of something that I used to know,

But every step I take, the tide says let me go.

(Pre-Chorus)

Night creaks open, the moon leans in to see,

All the pieces falling off the shell of me.

(Chorus)

I feel like I’m losing, losing me.

I’m crashing down and nobody to see.

My heart is tidal wave pounding at sea,

And the waves are drowning me—

I can’t breathe.

(Verse 2)

Streetlights blur like tears on a windshield glass,

Promises we built now scatter with the past.

You’re a faint horizon, moving out of reach,

And every breath I try just teaches me to grieve.

(Pre-Chorus)

Salt and silence, a chorus in my bones,

Pulling every heartbeat farther from home.

(Chorus)

I feel like I’m losing, losing me.

I’m crashing down and nobody to see.

My heart is tidal wave pounding at sea,

And the waves are drowning me—

I can’t breathe.

(Bridge)

If love is light, then show me where it hides,

If hope is deep, then help me find the tides.

Call my name through thunder, pull me through the swell—

I’m learning how to sink, and I don’t know how to tell.

(Breakdown (soft))

I float on fragments of the words you said,

They drift like lanterns that I’ll never get to mend.

Breathe in, breathe out—hold on, then release—

Still the ocean says there’s no returning peace.

(Final Chorus (big))

I feel like I’m losing, losing me.

I’m crashing down and nobody to see.

My heart is tidal wave pounding at sea,

And the waves are drowning me—

I can’t breathe.

(Repeat)

I feel like I’m losing, losing me—

And the sea keeps calling back the part of me it freed.

(Outro)

I can’t breathe—

But maybe tides will teach me how to sink and rise again.