[Intro]
[Verse](Hushed, breathy) Traffic lights bleed through my window pane.Every phone call sounds the same, the same.I keep a photograph of salt-worn stone.A little house where I don't feel alone.
[Verse](Chopped vocal sample) Gravel roads and pine trees standing tall.I remember running, no one to call.The tide would pull my worries out to sea.That quiet town still waits for me, for me.
[Chorus](High energy, layered vocals) Take me back to the shore, back to the shore.Where the waves keep time, I don't need more.Leave the noise behind the wooden door.Take me back, take me back to the shore.
[Verse](Distant, reverbed) City clocks are ticking way too fast.I just want the sound of something last.Gulls above the harbor, soft and slow.Wind moves through the pines like long ago.
[Instrumental]
[Chorus](High energy, layered vocals) Take me back to the shore, back to the shore.Where the waves keep time, I don't need more.Leave the noise behind the wooden door.Take me back, take me back to the shore.
[Bridge](Atmospheric, sparse) Dust on the porch, a lantern low and warm.No sirens screaming through the summer storm.Just salt air breathing through an open door.I don't need nothing, nothing more.
[Chorus](Layered, echoing) Take me back to the shore, back to the shore.Where the waves keep time, I don't need more.Leave the noise behind the wooden door.Take me back, take me back to the shore.
[Outro](Fading) Back to the shore.Back to the shore.Back to the shore.