[Intro - suspended pads, sparse surf guitar, soft unhurried vocal] Rode a ship across the limits; Saw the stars bend with time; Weightless States divide the cross-roads; Take my hat and ride with me [Instrumental Break - slow phasing pads, distant glassy bell tones] [Verse 1 - gentle rhythmic pulse, spacious phrasing] A velvet wave beneath the hull A green glow in the glass The Milky Way unbuttons slow And lets our little vessel pass The radio grows fins of light The compass learns to swim A ripple in the outer dark Reveals a tide within [Pre-Chorus - floating sustained notes] A wave inside a wave A curve inside a curve The farther out we sail The slower minutes turn [Chorus - soft hypnotic refrain, elongated open vowels] Slow tide, slow tide Surf the seam of folded light Slow tide, slow tide Through the space behind the sky Little waves in larger waves Silver rings in violet haze Slow tide, slow tide Let the stars take their time [Instrumental Break - jangly surf guitar motifs, shimmering bells, vast rubbery psychedelic pads] [Verse 2 - restrained melodic delivery] An island made of afterglow Appears behind the sun Its sand hums in a minor key Its tide has just begun A halo slides around my hat And floats above the deck It widens till it holds the stars Then narrows to a speck [Pre-Chorus - drifting melodic phrases] A wave inside a wave A curve inside a curve The farther out we sail The slower minutes turn [Chorus - soft hypnotic refrain, elongated open vowels] Slow tide, slow tide Surf the seam of folded light Slow tide, slow tide Through the space behind the sky Little waves in larger waves Silver rings in violet haze Slow tide, slow tide Let the stars take their time [Instrumental Break - prolonged spatial phasing, elastic synth echoes, slow harmonic suspension] [Bridge - percussion recedes, intimate sustained vocal] The ship became a drop of sea The sea became a room The room held one more endless sky In slow electric bloom I thought we'd reached the outer rim Of everything we'd seen Then found a smaller universe Suspended in between [Instrumental Break - deep swirling pads, sparse melodic droplets, gentle stereo drift] [Final Chorus - weightless sustained melody, restrained dynamics] Slow tide, slow tide Surf the seam of folded light Slow tide, slow tide Through the space behind the sky Little waves in larger waves Silver rings in violet haze Slow tide, slow tide Let the stars take their time [Outro - fading vocal, extremely elongated pads] Slow tide, slow tide No shore and no goodbye Only waves inside the waves And the blue behind the sky Slow tide Slow tide Let the stars take their time [Instrumental Outro - dissolving surf guitar echoes, infinite soft pad decay]
