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Waves

The Midnight Echo

A quiet closing song that treats change as a rhythm to move with rather than a force to defeat.

Retrograde Track 5 2021
ChangeReleaseNatureQuietRestorativeResolute
Complete original lyrics

A quiet closing song that treats change as a rhythm to move with rather than a force to defeat. Written for the original 52lyrics catalog, this track belongs to The Midnight Echo's connected late-night songbook.

Verse 1

The tide rearranges what we wrote in sand

Takes every castle with an even hand

I used to build higher and guard every wall

Now I leave a doorway and listen to it fall

Chorus

Let it come in waves, let it leave that way

Nothing has to hold its shape forever and a day

I can lose the shoreline and still know where I stand

Let it come in waves, let it open up my hands

Bridge

The moon does not command the sea to stay

It offers light and lets it move away

Outro

One breath returning, one carried away

I meet the changing water and call it a day

Credits

Written by Mara Vale, Jon Bell, Iris North

Produced by The Midnight Echo, Noah Reed

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