You walk where the salt still stings your skin Footprints fading like the lies you lived in Smoke on your breath, but the flame’s gone cold This town remembers what you’d rather not hold Neon bleeding through the autumn mist Her silhouette framed in a silence like this Cracked vinyl booth, coffee gone stale She looks through you like she’s reading a tale Your name still echoes in the wind Like a song that shouldn’t play again But she was the tide, pulling secrets from bone You were the wreck, she left you alone Now you’re just a ghost in her rearview light Flickering once in the Greyhaven night She don’t want your sorry, don’t need your flame She’s not drowning in that storm again You reached for the past like it might forgive But some things hurt too much to relive Carnival lights flicker like your nerves Boardwalk ghosts whisper all you deserve You thought clean hands might turn back time But she sees the truth in the space between lines She touches that locket, not for you It’s a tether to something you never knew The diner sighs like it's heard it before Another fool coming back, wanting more She says, “Hope’s a wave that breaks too fast,” And your shadow still clings to the glass She was the tide, pulling secrets from bone You were the wreck, she left you alone Now you’re just a ghost in her rearview light Flickering once in the Greyhaven night Don’t speak of rehab, don’t count the days Four years can’t bleach out the stains You want redemption, but she wants peace And ghosts don’t get a second release Did you think the sea forgets? Did you think she’d open that chest? Where your words sleep like rusted knives Where you carved her down to survive (You were the storm, she was the shore...) (Nothing left, nothing more...) She was the tide, cold and divine You were the storm, never aligned Now all that’s left is the chill in the air And a name she no longer dares to wear You reached for her hand in the dying light But Greyhaven swallows what’s lost to the night
