After the Tide

Intro

Mm

Mm-hmm

Oh

Verse 1

Folded the map we drew in ink

Tucked it in a drawer that never shuts

Your laugh still hangs in the stairwell air

A moth that lost the windowpane

Pre-Chorus

I count the cracks in the ceiling paint

Twelve of them spell your silhouette

I trace them blind like braille at night

Broken letters I can't forget

Chorus

You were the tide

I was the shoreline staying dry

You pulled back slow

Leaving salt in every row

Verse 2

Our garden grew a fence

Two flowers turned their heads away

The stems learned a different bend

A season I couldn't stay

Pre-Chorus

I press my palm to the cold glass

Fogging shapes that used to be us

They melt before they hold a name

A ghost of weather I can't trust

Chorus

You were the tide

I was the shoreline staying dry

You pulled back slow

Leaving salt in every row

Bridge

Some songs hum after instruments stop

Some rivers keep their riverbeds

I keep your echo in a broken cup

Drinking silence till the bottom shows

Chorus

You were the tide

I was the shoreline staying dry

You pulled back slow

Leaving salt in every row