[Verse 1] I was born at the end of the island Where the wind sings soft to the tide My soul wears braids of silence But my heart—she never learned to hide [Pre-Chorus] You said love is a flame, not a tether But you held me like a storm holds the feather I breathed you in like sacred smoke Now I exhale every word I never spoke [Chorus] There are waves in my chest Tearing through the calm I kept Salt in my scars, truth on my lips Dancing through the flood, I let it rip I’m not drowning—I’m the sea And no one sings like me [Verse 2] You prayed like a man with fire in his veins But I was the river you could never name I kissed you with my thunder But your love feared my rain [Pre-Chorus] You wrote my name in the sand with your lashes Watched it wash out in moonlit flashes But I remember what the water knows Even when the tide goes low [Chorus] There are waves in my chest Tearing through the calm I kept Salt in my scars, truth on my lips Dancing through the flood, I let it rip I’m not drowning—I’m the sea And no one sings like me [Bridge] (Spoken softly, layered over vocals) I called the spirits with a song made of breath They answered in thunder and held me in death But death is a door, and I’m not afraid I’m rising now, from what love betrayed [Final Chorus] There are waves in my chest Carving out the past I left Moonlight in my marrow, stars in my spit Witch of the water, and I’m done with it I’m not drowning—I’m the sea And no one sings like me
