[Verse 1] I count the posts by the pier Each one worn by rain The boats come home in splintered light But not the one I named The gulls keep their empty circles Over nets and broken crates I fold his coat in cedar chest And let the silence stay [Pre-Chorus] Year by year I hear the tide Call his name And pull back wide [Chorus] Widow’s Tide Widow’s Tide I still keep watch Where the dark ships glide Widow’s Tide Widow’s Tide Hope is a lantern That learns to die [Verse 2] Winter lays its hands on the dunes And burns the salt to glass I walk the shore with my blue scarf And every storm goes past The harbor holds its rusted chains Like prayers that will not break I used to say he’d round the bend Before the morning wakes [Pre-Chorus] But years have carved A deeper sight Into my bones Into the night [Chorus] Widow’s Tide Widow’s Tide I still keep watch Where the dark ships glide Widow’s Tide Widow’s Tide Hope is a lantern That learns to die [Bridge] Now I know the grief I kept Was woven with the dawn Not all I loved was meant to come Not all to carry on If I release the name I saved The sea will hold it kind And in that breaking, softly, I May leave him by the brine [Final Chorus] Widow’s Tide Widow’s Tide I lay the years Like shells at high tide Widow’s Tide Widow’s Tide Hope was the mourning I could not hide Widow’s Tide Widow’s Tide Still I bow To the love inside
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