Waves Don't Ask (version 2)

Verse

Six a.m., concrete still slick from the rain

Duffle bag slung over my shoulder, nothing to gain

Sister at the gate said the room's paid till the end of the month

I nodded like I knew what that meant

Train ticket folded up in my pocket

One way to Kingston, no return planned

Station clock says seven but my head still spinning

Fifty bucks left, and it's gone before it lands

Pre-Chorus

Tell me how far a man can run on nothing at all

Tell me who carries his weight when the tide pulls back full

I'm not chasing gold under the bridge tonight

Just trying to stay on my feet through the shine

Chorus

Waves don't ask if you're ready, they just come anyway

Riding the current till daylight, no way to stay

Lost in the open and I am free at last

That's how a man finds the ocean after everything that passed

Verse

Barefoot on black rock, water cold up to my knee

Something deep in my ribs starts humming low and free

Salt stinging eyes but they feel clearer now than yesterday

Every problem I carried just washed out with the tide

Soldier at the checkpoint looked through me like a ghost

Didn't ask for papers when the sun was burning red

I ain't hiding from nothing, I'm just chasing the gold on the shore

Nothing to prove anymore, no one's keeping score

Pre-Chorus

Tell me how far a man can run on nothing at all

Tell me who carries his weight when the tide pulls back full

I'm not chasing gold under the bridge tonight

Just trying to stay on my feet through the shine

Chorus

Waves don't ask if you're ready, they just come anyway

Riding the current till daylight, no way to stay

Lost in the open and I am free at last

That's how a man finds the ocean after everything that passed

Bridge

Mama used to sing this on the porch before dawn

Said the water will forgive you when the world won't hold on

Every fear I ever carried, every name I left behind

They're just driftwood now and the tide keeps time

Chorus

Waves don't ask if you're ready, they just come anyway

Riding the current till daylight, no way to stay

Lost in the open and I am free at last

That's how a man finds the ocean after everything that passed