Ebb & Flow

"What you
Wrote’s a lonely note for morning’s tide to soon erode"
Those were drawings in the sand that washed away when I awoke
All I hoped was I could dig a hole
So deep that I could grow my own ocean
And build a moat around it just to see me float
But I couldn’t and I won’t
What I want’s a different longing
That's an artificial drawing
I want art the fish will draw when
They come swimming in their colony
And swarm my feet to call on me to
Take a dive instead of trying to
Make a splash to wash my feet

The stars are scattered now
But they’ll align one day
But all I ask is how
And silent they stay
I know it’s warm, but it’s cold
I’m far, but I’m home
I’m certain that there’s nothing that I know except this ebb and flow

CHORUS:
The way we come and go
Feels like I’ll never know
I’m covered head to toe in endless doubt and reckless hope
We’re steady as a roller coaster down and up we roll
But I keep coming back to float along this
Ebb and flow
The way we come and go
Feels like I’ll never know
I’m covered head to toe in endless doubt and reckless hope
We’re steady as a roller coaster down and up we roll
But I keep coming back to float along this
Ebb and flow

Align they did
When I thought that I would quit
I was convinced you were a myth when
That old ocean wrote his fiction
But your glory brought epiphany
You waved at me with flipper feet
And showed me what I didn’t see
Without my eyes beneath the sea
The depth of love brought plenty pressure
When diving for that buried treasure
I made my vacant heart and vacant lungs a ready vessel
Then you waltzed with me when dawn had broke
And froze me with the song you spoke
Proposed me with the choice I chose
A dash of breeze and tide to go

The way we come and go
Feels like I’ll never know
I’m covered head to toe in endless doubt and reckless hope
We’re steady as a roller coaster down and up we roll
But I keep coming back to float along this
Ebb and flow
The way we come and go
Feels like I’ll never know
I’m covered head to toe in endless doubt and reckless hope
We’re steady as a roller coaster down and up we roll
But I keep coming back to float along this
Ebb and flow

With every calm a storm, with every storm a rainbow
The sky might cry its mighty eyes out and then wear a halo
I never took you for a shore thing, but know I'm grateful
The waves and tide come up and down but still the shore is faithful