[Verse 1] I couldn't give a day, they asked me for a month The message changed in passage, every whisper grew a front Thirty days went missing, like a chart erased at sea I couldn't see that stretch ahead, or what it did to me [Pre-Chorus] The date was carved in salt The tale got passed around Each hand reshaped the warning Till it barely held its sound [Chorus] Thirty days, where did they go? Lost between the tide and time I looked for who I used to be And found a stranger in the brine Call it out, let the old name ring Pull that buried self ashore By the seventh of April, twenty-twenty-five I was standing at the door [Verse 2] Those days wrecked the work I loved, turned every page askew A bright idea lost its mast before it ever broke through Then April seventh, I called the older me by name Out from under all that wreckage, I brought him back again [Pre-Chorus] No grand design, no map Just hands upon the rail I counted what was left of me And set it to the sail [Chorus] Thirty days, where did they go? Lost between the tide and time I looked for who I used to be And found a stranger in the brine Call it out, let the old name ring Pull that buried self ashore By the seventh of April, twenty-twenty-five I was standing at the door [Bridge] The eighth, I gathered what had scattered Paid the debts and found my feet The ninth, the buried memory surfaced Clear as bells above the deep I remembered—not the rumor, Not the month they said I'd lost, But the hand that held the line for me And what it took to cross [Final Chorus] Thirty days, I know their shape Though I couldn't see them then I found the self I thought I'd lost And brought him home again Call it out, let the old name ring Let the truth come rolling shore On the eighth I stood recovering On the ninth, I remembered more Thirty days, the tale runs straight No more drifting from the line By the seventh of April, twenty-twenty-five I reclaimed what still was mine
