[Verse 1] I kept the summer in a paper cup A yellow photograph, the edges curled You said the sea would never give us up I thought we had the map to every world [Pre-Chorus] But the paint ran thin beneath the sun And every promise came undone [Chorus] I lost the picture I believed in The blue horizon, gold and kind The tide came in and took the meaning And left the honest shore behind [Verse 2] The old guitar still leans against the wall Its wooden face remembers warmer days I hear your laugh inside the hallway hall Then watch it break apart in familiar ways [Bridge] No grand collapse, no final sign Just little truths that changed with time I held the dream until it frayed And learned what all that light concealed [Final Chorus] I lost the picture I believed in The blue horizon, gold and kind The tide came in and took the meaning But something real was left behind [Outro] The summer fades; the sea remains I keep the salt, I drop the frame
