Tides [Lyrics]3/11/2020 These are the lyrics to "Tides", the third song on my album The Work.
Listen on Spotify here. She had a house By the water It had a window To the evening sun She watched the dance Of nature every day Then let the darkness Overcome She spent her life Reading epic tales Of men with awesome Destinies She thought how beautiful Life can be Turned off the light And went to sleep There are tides in the body She said Oh but I never learned How to swim And so I'll sit on the shore I won’t ask for any more But there are tides in the body She said Her life was full of things She could not name ‘Cause she could never Bear to know If she had thrown herself Into their flame Could she have done The impossible When she was finally taking Her last breath She thought of all the things She'd leave behind She thought of family Love and secret dreams And the tides she closed to Closed her eyes There are tides in the body She said Oh but I never learned How to swim And so I'll sit on the shore I won’t ask for any more But there are tides in the body She said
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