THE TIDE THAT LEARNED MY NAME

**Verse I (Clean / hushed)**

You arrived like weather I couldn’t outrun

A slow change in the pressure of my lungs

I learned your shape in the negative space

Between what you promised and what you erased

I carried your quiet like salt in my blood

Every word you withheld became a flood

You stood at the shoreline, perfectly dry

While I learned how to drown without crying

**Pre-Chorus (Clean)**

I called it patience, I called it grace

But love shouldn’t feel like erosion

**Chorus (Clean)**

I loved you the way the moon loves the tide

Pulling myself apart just to feel you arrive

I waited in pieces for you to decide

If I was worth the return or the rise

If this was devotion, it asked too much

If this was faith, it forgot my name

I gave you my depth, you gave me your distance

And called it the same

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**Verse II (Clean)**

You spoke in omens, never in truth

Left me decoding the absence of you

I read your silence like scripture and sign

Every pause another reason I tried

I bent like branches in borrowed storms

Held my breath to keep you warm

But trees don’t bloom where the roots are starved

They just learn how to break quietly

**Pre-Chorus II (Half-scream, restrained)**

I was not healing

I was being worn

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**Chorus II (Clean → Grit)**

I loved you like a vow I made alone

(***ALONE***)

Like a temple with no god inside

(***EMPTY***)

I kept the fire, you kept the ash

(***YOU LEFT ME***)

I gave you the ocean—

***YOU TOOK THE TIDE***

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### **Bridge / Breakdown (FULL SCREAMS)**

***I LET THE WATER TAKE MY SHAPE***

***YOU LET IT TAKE MY NAME***

***I BLED IN CURRENTS YOU NEVER FELT***

***YOU CALLED THE DEPTH A GAME***

***YOU DON’T GET MY HORIZON***

***YOU DON’T GET MY SLEEP***

***YOU DON’T GET TO STAND ON SHORE***

***AND CALL ME WEAK***

*(instruments fall away)*

***I AM NOT THE SEA FOR YOU***

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**Final Chorus (Clean + Layered Screams)**

I loved you like the night loves flame

(***IT ALWAYS BURNS***)

Close enough to die for it

(***I DIED FOR YOU***)

But tides remember every wound

(***EVERY WOUND***)

And still they learn to turn away

If this is love, it learns to end

(***IT ENDS HERE***)

If this is faith, I choose myself

(***I CHOOSE ME***)

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**Outro**

The water’s calm

The pull is gone

I leave my name

Where you can’t reach it

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