We Were Never Small — The Golden Tide

Verse

Suitcase by the doorway, lantern burning low

Your shadow on the wall still doesn't want to go

Copper coins and photographs spread across the bed

Nineteen years of Sundays in the letters that we said

Pre-Chorus

So how do we fold up the years

Into something small enough to hold

Every goodbye tastes like salt

But the tide still turns to gold

Chorus

We were never small

Not when we gave it all

Every ending has a shore

We just haven't found it yet

We were never small

Even watching the sun fall

We were the fire, we were the flame

We were never small

Verse

Train pulls from the station, steam like breath in cold

Your hand still warm in mine though the whistle's blowing bold

The platform lights are swaying like lanterns in a song

Every mile that pulls us apart still calls us home

Pre-Chorus

So how do we carry the years

When the road ahead's unknown

Every goodbye tastes like salt

But we were built from stone

Chorus

We were never small

Not when we gave it all

Every ending has a shore

We just haven't found it yet

We were never small

Even watching the sun fall

We were the fire, we were the flame

We were never small

Bridge

Maybe the leaving is just a door

Maybe the missing means there's more

I'll carry your laugh in my chest like a drum

Beating out loud everywhere I become

Chorus

We were never small

Not when we gave it all

Every ending has a shore

And I think we've finally found it

We were never small

Even watching the sun fall

We were the fire, we were the flame

We were never, never small