Track · Apr 16, 2026 · English

Red Tide Rider

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4:24

Language

English

Lyrics

[Intro - sung softly, clean guitar]

I saw a wave of rust

It had teeth

It had a mouth like a canyon

And it spoke beneath

It said: "Rider, rider

The red tide's high

You don't need an ocean

To learn how to die"

[Verse 1]

I built my board from a hearse door

Waxed it with earwax and gore

The horizon was bleeding and torn

The red tide was already born

[Chorus]

Red tide rider / Blood on the rail

Red tide rider / The ocean failed

But I don't need water / To catch a wave

Just a hill of corpses / And a hungry grave

[Verse 2]

I paddled through the rib cage

Of a god that drowned in thirst

The ribs made a tunnel

And the red tide came first

I looked behind me / The shore was gone

I looked ahead / Just a bloody dawn

I looked inside / And what did I find?

A red tide rider / Leaving my mind behind

[Chorus]

Red tide rider / Blood on the rail

Red tide rider / The ocean failed

But I don't need water / To catch a wave

Just a hill of corpses / And a hungry grave

[Middle section - bass and reverb only, whispered then sung]

[whispered]

The red tide doesn't ask. It takes.

The red tide doesn't break. It makes.

[sung]

Makes riders out of the damned

Makes surfboards out of the sand

Makes waves out of everything you lost

And then it asks: "What's the cost?"

[Guitar solo] – [One minute. One note climbs higher every 4 bars, each note ringing out fully before the next.]

[Outro - sung, fading]

Red tide rider... red tide rider...

The ocean's dead... but I'm inside her...

[last line, clear, no reverb]

I am the wave now.

Style

surf rockmalekey: e minor · tempo: 95 bpm (steadybuilding)english

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AshePoalumu

GeneratedApr 16, 2026

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