Shorelight Refrain

Verse

I still smell the salt on your jacket where you hung it by the door

Your mother's apron tied in a loose knot on the back of the chair

The sun was setting over the water when we decided to stay

Two hours too long at someone else's dinner, but I wouldn't trade it for air

I kept my phone face down on the table till the stars started coming up

You said you'd bring the binoculars from your room and look across at us with the moonlight through them

We found a piece of driftwood floating near the pier

Carved into a name that wasn't yours, but I liked it anyway

Pre-Chorus

So do you want to stay out here till the tide turns and the lights go off?

Or do you want to go back inside where it's warm and quiet like we used to be before this?

I don't know if I'm ready for a whole new thing

But I know that I need something to hold on to tonight

Chorus

Shorelight, shine your light down on us now

We're not letting go of the day till it's turned into dawn somehow

I'll take every little piece we find out here in the dark

And I'll keep it with me till the morning starts

Verse

You said you used to sneak out past curfew when you were a kid and watch the waves roll in

Your father thought you were asleep, but you'd climb down through the window and sit on the sand alone

I asked you why you didn't tell him about it and you just smiled and said 'That's what makes it mine

We drove home with the windows down and your hair blowing across your face

The whole backseat full of driftwood and feathers we found in the dark

Your mother made pancakes for us when we got inside

You said she had a secret ingredient, something you'd never be able to put into words

I don't know if it's true or not, but I believe you anyway

Pre-Chorus

So do you want to stay out here till the tide turns and the lights go off?

Or do you want to go back inside where it's warm and quiet like we used to be before this?

I don't know if I'm ready for a whole new thing

But I know that I need something to hold on to tonight

Chorus

Shorelight, shine your light down on us now

We're not letting go of the day till it's turned into dawn somehow

I'll take every little piece we find out here in the dark

And I'll keep it with me till the morning starts

Bridge

Maybe this is just a phase that burns itself out before too long

But for tonight, can't you let your guard down and just be there?

Not the boy who used to sneak past his father's watchful eyes

Just the one sitting across from me with the stars in his eyes

So turn off your phone, leave it on silent till tomorrow

Take my hand like we used to when the whole world felt like a war

Let the tide come in and wash over us both

And maybe this is where our best story starts to grow

Chorus

Shorelight, shine your light down on us now

We're not letting go of the day till it's turned into dawn somehow

I'll take every little piece we find out here in the dark

And I'll keep it with me till the morning starts