Take Me Back to the Water

Instrumental Intro

Verse

Salt on the window of a rented car

My brother asleep on the backseat shelf

Dad hummed along to a radio ghost

And I counted the miles all by myself

Verse

Sand in the sandwiches mom had made

Cheap little buckets and one good spade

The tide came up and stole my shoes

I laughed so hard that I nearly stayed

Chorus

Take me back to the water

Where the years ran out like foam

Take me back to the water

Where I always knew the way home

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh oh-oh

Where I always knew the way home

Oh-oh oh-oh

Verse

The pier stood tall like a wooden king

Arcade pennies in a paper cup

We stayed till the lights came wobbling on

And nobody ever said pack it up

Pre-Chorus

Now the boards are soft and the signs are pale

But the wind don't know that it's old

Chorus

Take me back to the water

Where the years ran out like foam

Take me back to the water

Where I always knew the way home

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh oh-oh

Where I always knew the way home

Oh-oh oh-oh

Bridge

I grew up

I moved on

I forgot how the tide sounds

Then one grey morning I smelled the salt

And I was seven years old somehow

Chorus

Take me back to the water

Where the years ran out like foam

Take me back to the water

Where I always knew the way home

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh oh-oh

Where I always knew the way home

Oh-oh oh-oh

Where I always knew the way home