Tides [Lyrics]

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
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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