[Intro]

[Verse]

The waves were black beneath the moon

You slipped between the dark and blue

I heard you screaming through the storm

The same old voice that wished me gone

I threw the line with frozen hands

But hatred runs deeper than the sand

You looked at me like I was death

And chose the ocean with your breath

Pre-Chorus

'Cause once the story owns your soul

The truth can’t reach you anymore

You’d rather lose the light you know

Than let your enemy pull you ashore

HOOK

You would drown before you took my hand

Sink with your pride instead of stand

Truth floating right before your eyes

But your heart chose sides

And I watched you disappear

Not from the water — from the fear

That maybe all your hate was wrong

So you held on 'til hope was gone

Yeah, people build their walls so high

They’d rather die than change their minds

Verse 2

We wear our anger like a flag

Turn flesh and blood to good and bad

Every tribe needs saints and thieves

So we become what we believe

Facts break apart against the skin

When pride won’t let the light get in

A drowning man still turns away

If rescue comes from those he hates

Pre-Chorus

And every screen becomes a church

Every word becomes a war

Nobody’s listening anymore

Just defending who they are

HOOK

You would drown before you took my hand

Sink with your pride instead of stand

Truth floating right before your eyes

But your heart chose sides

And I watched you disappear

Not from the water — from the fear

That maybe all your hate was wrong

So you held on 'til hope was gone

Bridge

Maybe we’re all out in the tide

Clinging to our separate sides

Terrified that if we bend

Everything we are might end

So we curse the ones who try to save us

Just to keep our story sacred

And the ocean keeps its silence

While we worship our defiance

Final Hook

We would drown before we understand

Love can come from foreign hands

Truth don’t care whose mouth it’s from

But hatred blinds everyone

And the sea keeps rolling on

Long after both of us are gone

Leaving only echoes in the dark

Of how pride can sink a heartA life ring thrown from the wrong side

Still floats the same in open tide.