The Patient Tide

Verse 1

Morning light across the sheets

Your breathing soft beside me still

I trace the curve of yesterday

And everything we chose to build

Pre-Chorus

I used to run from tender hands

Now I hold them till they're warm

Chorus

Love is the slowest river

Love is the patient tide

Love is the space between two hearts

Where we choose to hide

Post-Chorus

Stay here

Stay here with me

Verse 2

Picked up every bruise you carried

Laid them down beside my own

We are not the men we started

But we're someone we have grown

Pre-Chorus

I used to answer with my fists

Now I answer with my name

Chorus

Love is the slowest river

Love is the patient tide

Love is the space between two hearts

Where we choose to hide

Post-Chorus

Stay here

Stay here with me

Bridge

And if the winter comes to take us

We'll be warm inside the sound

Of two voices low and honest

Telling everything they've found

Chorus

Love is the slowest river

Love is the patient tide

Love is the space between two hearts

Where we choose to hide

Post-Chorus

Stay here

Stay here

Stay here with me