[Verse 1 – Clean guitar, palm-muted riffs; restless and melancholic]
The ocean keeps my secrets safe,
Buried where the daylight breaks.
Every wave repeats my name,
Like it forgot I'm not the same.
Salt on my skin,
Rain in my chest.
I'm still breathing—
Just not my best.
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[Pre-Chorus – Building guitars and drums; aching]
If every tide
Returns again,
Why can't I find
My way back in?
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[Chorus – Full band; explosive and emotional]
The sound of the sea
Won't let me sleep.
It crashes through
The cracks in me.
Every wave
Pulls me beneath.
I'm learning how to drown
Without leaving.
Oh-oh-oh...
Whoa-oh-oh...
The sound of the sea
Sounds just like me.
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[Verse 2 – Driving guitars; desperate]
The moon hangs low,
A worn-out light.
Watching me lose
Another night.
The shoreline knows
The shape I take.
A ghost washed up
With every wave.
Every sunrise
Paints the blue—
But all I ever see
Is you.
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[Pre-Chorus – Bigger build; yearning]
I throw my hope
Into the tide.
It always comes back
Broken inside.
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[Chorus – Bigger instrumentation]
The sound of the sea
Won't let me sleep.
It crashes through
The cracks in me.
Every wave
Pulls me beneath.
I'm learning how to drown
Without leaving.
Oh-oh-oh...
Whoa-oh-oh...
The sound of the sea
Sounds just like me.
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[Instrumental Break – Emotional guitar lead, crashing cymbals, driving drums]
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[Bridge – Half-time, stripped guitars; raw]
Maybe the sea
Isn't calling me.
Maybe it's only
Echoing what's already here.
(Ooh...)
If I become
Another wave,
Will anyone notice
When I disappear?
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[Build-Up – Layered guitars, rising drums; emotional tension]
Hold on...
Hold on...
The tide keeps pulling.
Oh-oh-oh...
Whoa-oh-oh...
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[Final Chorus – Biggest guitars, soaring vocals; cathartic]
The sound of the sea
Still follows me.
But somewhere beyond
These endless waves,
A different shore
Is calling me.
Maybe I'm more
Than this aching sea.
Oh-oh-oh...
Whoa-oh-oh...
The sound of the sea...
Won't always be me.
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[Outro – Clean guitar and distant waves; bittersweet]
The waves still break.
But so will dawn.
(Hmm...)