Lay Me Down Against the Tide (Version 2)

Verse

Three piers down the waterline

Fingers tracing where I used to be in time

Your sweater's folded on the back of my chair

Salt still sharp on your shoulderbone

I'm leaving nothing that we call home

Twelve gulls wheeling low over the sea

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear the tide start to turn

Are you listening how it yearns to burn

Chorus

Lay me down against the tide

Let the waves sweep clean inside

Where the light and water start to bend

That's where I find my way again

I'm not leaving, just becoming free

In your eyes I used to be

Now I see a horizon that I've never seen

Verse

Your shadow stretches longer than before

Every step I take is an open door

This whole harbor knows our name and how we sailed

But now the tide's pulling me into its gale

I brought back shells you gave me from the shore

Stacked in a jar that's been there since before

The porch swing creaks with your footsteps slow

Every time I hear it start to go

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear the tide start to turn

Are you listening how it yearns to burn

Chorus

Lay me down against the tide

Let the waves sweep clean inside

Where the light and water start to bend

That's where I find my way again

I'm not leaving, just becoming free

In your eyes I used to be

Now I see a horizon that I've never seen

Bridge

Maybe it's not goodbye at all

Just trading in the shore for something tall

If I let this tide carry me away

That means I'm moving forward where you'll be

Chorus

Lay me down against the tide

Let the waves sweep clean inside

Where the light and water start to bend

That's where I find my way again

I'm not leaving, just becoming free

In your eyes I used to be

Now I see a horizon that I've never seen