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I feel your ghost beside me as I take my aching steps into the sand.
and as the waves take my breath I realize I can no longer stand.
I remember when we sat on the shore.
I watched your guilt pollute the sea,
but I would keep pressing on and turn this vice to apathy.
The waves would come and consume us:
youâd no longer see the beauty here,
and I would start to drown you
the harder I tried to keep you near.
I canât stand with a broken spine. Youâll see my hands wither in time.
And even though I know youâre gone, your presence lingers on.
I canât keep my languid lids lifted;
Iâll sleep on the sand that Iâve searched and sifted,
but youâll still float through my dreams. Youâll swell up and over me.
I keep searching for the root that grew from the seed you planted.
Dark things have grown up, cracked the pavement where we were standing.
Thereâs no place I feel at home-
Iâve been torn away from everything Iâve known.
My surroundings are re-arranged: strange places with familiar names.
And every night I wake up in cold sweat to find a spider in my bed.
I like to think that itâs you trying to crawl inside my head.
Lover, this fracture forever shapes my skin.
Iâm cold and terrified as morning comes to watch me break again.
The morning brings such unique sorrow.
Iâm sick of watching the sun come up.
No promise of a new day in tomorrow when Iâm tired of waking up.
left me
with the weight of our sin.
Now I have to bear this burden
until the very end.
- Album:
- Tides
- Coming Home