The Wave

Riff

Verse 1

The waters rose without a word

And swallowed all we'd built and known

No hand could hold the drowning world

No eye could see what we had sown

We were the kings of ancient tides

Who read the stars and named the deep

But all our wisdom turned to stone

And sank into the endless sleep

Pre-Chorus

And still we breathed

And still we swam to distant shores...

With nothing left...

But the names of what we were before

Chorus

Children of the sea, we are scattered now

Carrying the fire in a dying vow

Generation after generation fades

But something always lingers in the dark

A word, a song, a stone, a dying spark -

Children of the sea, we remember the wave

Riff

Verse 2

We found new lands and learned new tongues

We built new walls and loved new skies

But in the quiet after dark

We told our children where truth lies

Of towers touched the morning sun

Of gardens deep beneath the blue

They laughed and called it fever dreams -

But part of them already knew

Pre-Chorus

And still we breathed

And still we passed the ember on...

One fragile thread...

Through a thousand years of almost gone

Chorus

Children of the sea, we are scattered now

Carrying the fire in a dying vow

Generation after generation fades

But something always lingers in the dark

A word, a song, a stone, a dying spark -

Children of the sea, we remember the wave

Riff

Bridge

What the deep has taken

Can the deep return?

What the tide has broken

Can the tide relearn?

We were not the last dream

We were just the first

Every age that drowns itself

Is dying of the same old thirst

Instrumental Break - tempo shift

Solo

Hook

They say the sea remembers everything it takes...

Final Chorus - key change, full power

Children of the sea, we are rising now

The fire never died in the ancient vow

Generation after generation stays

Something always surfaces from the dark

A word, a song, a shore, a living spark -

Children of the sea - we become the wave

Outro - Instrumental