The Ocean

Spending our nights

Passing beneath the pier

I’ve been a drink behind since we were there

Riding that same ride

The one that went upside down

Where you carved this heart in my arm with a pin that you’d found

And you taught me how to swim in the ocean

Pulled me in although I was not prepared

Said you were the one to hold on to

If I was scared

I hung my hopes

On August by the dunes

I guess I thought our footprints would not have moved

Where you taught me how to swim in the ocean

Pulled me in although I was not prepared

Said you were the one to hold on to

If I was scared

If I said how I felt in the ocean

Maybe it’d be me by your side instead

There’s nothing that’s worse than not knowing

What we might have been

So now I’m afraid of the ocean

And the sting of salt that’s still in the air

Guess you’re not the one I hold on to

I lost you there