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Gate 22, Low Tide

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[Intro]
I still wave at the water like it's Gate 22

[Verse 1]
Fluorescent light on the terminal floor,
your hoodie sleeve pulled over your wrist.
The board flipped over. We didn't look up.
I hugged you like there'd be a hundred more.

[Pre-Chorus]
Now the water comes over my feet
and the years went soft the way paper does.
I kept the boarding pass in a drawer
to prove we were there.

[Chorus]
I don't cry anymore, I just go quiet and warm
for two kids laughing under the departure board.
We didn't know. I'm glad we didn't know.
I still wave at the water like it's Gate 22.

[Verse 2]
They called your row, you walked through the gate,
turned around once, and then it was late.
I'd trade a year for thirty seconds more
of standing there.

[Pre-Chorus]
Now the foam runs over my feet
and it doesn't pull me under anymore.
This paper's worn as thin as cloth,
and my hands are warm.

[Chorus 2]
I don't cry anymore, I just go quiet and warm
for two kids laughing under the departure board.
We didn't know. I'm glad we didn't know.
I still wave at the water like it's Gate 22.

[Bridge]
So here. Take it. Go.
The tide can have the ink.
I'm not letting you go,
I'm just letting the water have the paper.

[Final Chorus]
I don't cry anymore, I just go quiet and warm
for two kids laughing under the departure board.
We didn't know. I'm glad we didn't know.
I still wave at the water like it's Gate 22.

[Outro]
Like it's Gate 22

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