Lyrics
[INTRO] Breathe it in... Carry it out... Mmm... [VERSE 1] I left my mother's name in the harbor dust Tasted salt from a thousand different coasts The same wind that scattered my grandfather's ash Still bargains through the markets where I sell what's left I learned to sleep beneath a stranger's sky Learned which silences keep the wolves outside Some doors you knock on just to hear them breathe Some homes are built long before the first stone's laid [PRE-CHORUS] No map can hold this hunger No border stops the rain Every road I walked in darkness Led me bleeding home again [CHORUS] Every tide remembers where we stood Carrying the broken and the good From Lagos ports to Tokyo lights We cross the same water, we burn the same night Every tide remembers where we stood Carry it home Salt in my blood [VERSE 2] She speaks in rhythms I almost understand Her hands like rivers carving stone and sand We trade our ghosts over plastic cups of tea Two strangers laughing in a borrowed key She shows me photographs of mountains I'll never climb Yet somehow feel their shadow cross my spine We share no language, not a single word Still longing finds the same voice in every tongue we've heard [PRE-CHORUS] No more shadows left to hide in No more gates left to defend The melody was always rising Every heartbeat led us here again [CHORUS] Every tide remembers where we stood Carrying the broken and the good From frozen north to southern fire We reach with trembling hands, we share the same desire Every tide remembers where we stood Carry it home Take me back [BRIDGE] I don't belong to any flag But the ocean calls my name Every wave rewrites the map Every loss becomes the same... The same as yours The same as theirs Every shore a different story Every grief becomes a bridge [FINAL CHORUS] Every tide remembers where we stood Carrying the broken and the good From every shore and every door We carried tomorrow through the days before Every tide remembers where we stood Every tide remembers where we stood... Carry it home Every tide remembers where we stood... Carry it home... [OUTRO] Carry it home... Every tide remembers... Take me where my mother's name Still knows the wind... Mmm... Take me back...