Riptide

Intro: Male vocalist

Riptide...

I know you feel it too...

Riptide...

I keep coming back to you...

Verse 1

I only call when the night gets long

'Cause the silence knows where I went wrong

I see your name and I look away

Then I type your name at half past three

I told you I was moving on

But I was only moving on from home

I made a wreckage out of us

Then blamed the tide because I trust too much

Pre-drop

You say I pull you under

But I was drowning first

I never learned how to surface

So I made the water worse

Chorus

Riptide, I'm the reason

You keep getting pulled back in

I leave a light on in the darkness

Then I disappear again

Riptide, I'm the current

You keep fighting to survive

I don't know how to stay

But I don't know how to say goodbye

Verse 2

You were never just a late-night call

You were the only thing that felt like home at all

But I got scared of being seen

So I turned your love into a leaving

I know I only come around

When I need somewhere safe to drown

But if you let me try again

I'll learn to be a harbour, not a storm

Breakdown

If I let you go...

Would you finally breathe?

If I turn away...

Would you stop waiting for me?

Build

I'm the reason...

You keep getting pulled back in...

I don't know how to stay...

But I don't know how to say goodbye...

Final chorus

Riptide, I'm the reason

You keep getting pulled back in

I leave a light on in the darkness

Then I disappear again

Female vocalist

Then stop leaving...

Then stop leaving...

If you're the tide...

Then learn to bring me home...

Outro

Riptide...

I know you feel it too...

Riptide...

I'm trying to come back to you...

Verse 3: Male vocalist

Mi nah sleep till the sky turn grey

Mi carry yuh name like a debt mi pay

Every likkle thing mi did run from

Come back louder when the night done

Yuh did hold mi head above di line

Mi still cyan look yuh in di eye

Mi build a wall an call it pride

An watch yuh drown on di other side

Pre-drop

You say I pull you under

But I was drowning first

Mi never learn fi swim alone

So mi pull yuh down wid me

Chorus

Riptide, I'm the reason

You keep getting pulled back in

I leave a light on in the darkness

Then I disappear again

Riptide, I'm the current

You keep fighting to survive

I don't know how to stay

But I don't know how to say goodbye

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, riptide

Oh-oh, riptide

Pull mi back, pull mi back

Oh-oh, riptide

Verse 4: Male vocalist

Tell mi how fi love yuh widout di fear

Tell mi how fi stay when mi wan disappear

Yuh seh mi cold, mi seh mi scared

Two tings cyan live inna one chest

Mi hear yuh voice inna di rain

Like a horn from a distant lane

Mi woulda walk through di whole a di night

Just fi see yuh one more time

Bridge

If mi let yuh go now

Would di water settle down

If mi turn mi back tonight

Would yuh finally sleep alright

Build

I'm the reason…

You keep getting pulled back in…

I don't know how to stay…

But I don't know how to say goodbye…

Drop

Riptide…

Riptide…

Pull mi under, pull mi under

Riptide…

Riptide…

Mi cyan stay, mi cyan say goodbye

Verse 5: Male vocalist

Sun come up an mi still deh yah

Same old road, same old prayer

Mi nuh want fi be di storm no more

Mi want fi be di door yuh walk through

Yuh seh mi pull yuh under

But mi was drowning first

So mi a learn fi hold mi own breath

Before mi hold yuh close again

Chorus

Riptide, I'm the reason

You keep getting pulled back in

I leave a light on in the darkness

Then I disappear again

Riptide, I'm the current

You keep fighting to survive

I don't know how to stay

But I don't know how to say goodbye

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, riptide

Oh-oh, riptide

Bring mi home, bring mi home

Oh-oh, riptide

Outro: Male vocalist

Riptide…

Mi hear yuh call mi name…

Riptide…

Mi a come back fi yuh…

Riptide…

(This time, this time)

Mi nah run again…

(No more, no more)

Riptide…