[Verse 1]
I was born by the breakwall
Salt on my knuckles, iron in my jaw
I call the dark water up
And it comes when I call
Boots on the wet pier
Moon tucked low in a bruise-black sky
If I say, “Hold still”
Even the shoreline lies
[Verse 2]
I move like a warning
Sideways rain when I step in the room
Got a fist full of lightning
And a pocket full of doom
They seen me turn a harbor
Into a graveyard of silver foam
If I want your little world
I can take it home
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear that low roll coming?
That’s the ocean on my breath
Better lock your windows
Better brace your chest
The sky keep leaning
Like it knows my name
When I lift my hand up
Everything obeys
[Chorus]
I pull the tide, pull the tide
Pull the tide right down
(Black tide king)
I shake the moon, shake the moon
Till it falls to the ground
(Black tide king)
Storm on my tongue
Waves at my heels
If I want your fear
I can make it real
Black tide king
Black tide king
[Verse 3]
Midnight on the freeway
Semis shaking like a runaway drum
Every bridge I look at
Feels like it’s about to come undone
Got that grit in my lungs
And a hymn in the back of my throat
When I speak, the sea bows low
Like it knows
[Bridge]
Let the choirs rise high
Let the black clouds spin
If the world wants a war
Then I’m weather in the skin
One more flash of gold
One more deepwater cry
I’m the man in the moon
With the ocean in my eyes
[Chorus]
I pull the tide, pull the tide
Pull the tide right down
(Black tide king)
I shake the moon, shake the moon
Till it falls to the ground
(Black tide king)
Storm on my tongue
Waves at my heels
If I want your fear
I can make it real
Black tide king
Black tide king
[Outro]
Yeah, the shore remembers
Every step I’ve made
When the night goes hard
I’m the one it made