Living Shores

Verse 1

Many learned to seal their word

To follow a duty like their only compass

You were told a tree must never lean

That gentleness isn't fruit to gather or to plant

But under the bark a stubborn flame still glows

A hunger to be real no winter can erase

Pre-Chorus

You have the right to hand over your storms

To lift your head and stay truly honest

You have the right to set down your armor

And move more freely toward new futures

Chorus

Be the rock

Be the spring

Break the chains that hold the running

Let the rain fall when the weight touches you

Dance when life cuts through and pushes you

You are men

Living shores

Where strength and tenderness marry the wind

Verse 2

Some inherit a name a role a memory

Without ever choosing their own story's course

Open the door go see other landscapes

Kindness is worth more than old inheritances

Travel far come back with open hands

The world needs these half-opened lands

Pre-Chorus

You have the right to hand over your storms

To lift your head and stay truly honest

You have the right to set down your armor

And move more freely toward new futures

Chorus

Be the rock

Be the spring

Break the chains that hold the running

Let the rain fall when the weight touches you

Dance when life cuts through and pushes you

You are men

Living shores

Where strength and tenderness marry the wind

Bridge

To those who feel alone in shadow and forgetting

A heart that opens wide is not a weakened one

The tear that falls is no defeat at all

It's the spring set loose that rises and celebrates

Chorus

Be the rock

Be the spring

Walk together toward a softer dawn

Weep laugh dance without end

Stand tall men you open the way

You are men

Living shores

Where strength and tenderness marry the wind

Marry the wind

Marry the wind