RIPTIDES Lyrics

Many a night I slaved over the thought

Of gatekeeping the purity solace tends to afford

Most breakups are hard to figure

While others are set on course

I never seen in succession

A love blossom and pour

Out every root, every stem

My family tree's adorned

With withering fruits of labor

My crowns made out of thorns

Needs reveling deeper

Jealousies on the cross

I crucified every facet of character, now I mourn, aye

Born in the image of fatal marriage

I'm hoping to be different

I keep on failing to please

I can't handle this weather

I know I'm human and all but is there a prayer I could leverage?

Just for once in your favor

This is the talk I've been dreading

What do I even deserve?

My hearts taking a licking

Please don't take her from me

I'm here begging forgiveness

Could you give me the strength?

This time I'll be more deliberate

Maybe I'm immature

Or maybe it's years of division

Riptides leaving me capsized

Floored under water like I'm baptized

My catastrophic fantasizing

Is advising on more mistakes to make

I thought I bottled it well

But guilt finds its way to escape

Even when surviving hell

Cause even when I feel a glimpse of heaven breathing down my neck

I tend to snuff it out

Don't get too close to what you fear the most be here to loathe

These cryptic thoughts don't do me favors

Where were they composed?

Certainly, in keys of life we tend to hear more songs

Of overcoming natures, we developed, so I'm writing on

Till something more poetic lives prophetic in my morning tone

Can't pass on defective genetics, no we can't credit those

Dose clarity, I'm casualty prone

It's gravity, I'll naturally come crashing is all

See my mortality won't be sequestered

Or guided by the feckless

I've soldiered through the desserts

It's time to bring it home

(I can't stand the rain without you)

(Baby I won't)

(I can't stand to see you with someone else)