Night Tides

Hook (18 bars – melodic, half-sung)

(Yeah)

Waves crash through my mind like night tides,

You said you’d stay, but you lied.

Now I’m floatin’ in the pain I hide,

Smilin’ outside while I’m dead inside.

Stars don’t shine the same no more,

Heart too heavy, can’t lift off the floor.

I been textin’ your name, then deletin’ it (yeah),

Tryna move on but I’m feelin’ it (still feelin’ it).

I been pourin’ cups just to see you clearer (clearer),

Your reflection in the rear-view mirror (mirror).

Every love I touch turns to frost,

Midnight callin’ remindin’ me what I lost (yeah).

Demons knockin’ at my door, no sleep,

Talkin’ to the moon when I can’t breathe (yeah yeah).

Pain so deep I can’t even bleed,

Tides keep pullin’ me under the sea (gone).

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🎶 Verse 1 (16 bars – melodic rap flow)

I still see your ghost in my phone screen light (light),

I still hear your laugh in my dreams at night (night).

All this lean in my cup got me feelin’ right (wrong),

Tryna numb pain that don’t fade with time.

I’ve been dancin’ with shadows and fallin’ apart (apart),

Runnin’ from the truth, but it’s hittin’ my heart (heart).

She said “love me,” but it’s gettin’ too dark,

Now I’m bleedin’ through the ink in my art (uh-huh).

Backseat tears on a late-night drive,

Can’t feel my soul but I’m still alive.

Turnin’ pain to sound, that’s how I survive,

Every bar I drop keeps hope revived.

They said time heals, but time just kills (kills),

Every second that I spend standin’ still (still).

She my drug, I don’t need no pill (no),

But every dose still makes me ill (yeah).

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🎶 Bridge (10 bars – moody, harmonized ad-libs)

(Yeah yeah)

My heart froze, can you thaw it out? (please)

I scream your name but no sound comes out (nah).

Love’s a war, I lost that bout,

Cupid shot twice, now I bleed out (uh).

Every night same replay scene,

Me and you crash in a lucid dream.

If heaven got room for the in-betweens,

Then maybe we can meet where the stars still gleam (still gleam).

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🎶 Hook (Reprise – full)

Waves crash through my mind like night tides,

You said you’d stay, but you lied.

Now I’m floatin’ in the pain I hide,

Smilin’ outside while I’m dead inside.

Stars don’t shine the same no more,

Heart too heavy, can’t lift off the floor.

I been textin’ your name, then deletin’ it (yeah),

Tryna move on but I’m feelin’ it (feelin’ it).

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🎶 Outro (8 bars – slow fade, whispered tone)

Night tides pull me deeper down,

Can’t feel my feet, I don’t touch ground.

If I fall asleep, don’t wake me now,

I’m with the ghosts where the pain drowns.

Another night, another cigarette,

Another call that I still regret.

You in my head like a silhouette,

And I still ain’t escaped you yet…

(echoes out with ad-libs: “night tides… night tides… ohh…”)