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Rotting driftwood on the foreign shores
Spilling out into the ocean floor
And the memory's all you left without a trace
Paralyzed with the thoughts receeding
The current sweeps you with its silent bleeding
Through the heart into the darkest place
Turn around, there's nothing to see here
Run away, no reason to be here
It's the ghost who never goes away
Turn around, and leave this behind now
See the ground as it bleeds into sky now
You fight the sea, you're always going to drown
All the secrets that you're holding
All the memories you hide
All the frail thoughts that echo in the corners of your mind
They won't even last a moment
The will soon be swept away
When the ocean takes you in its arms and carries you away
You carry all your burdens on the cross around your neck
You take whatever's left that you could salvage from the wreck
And that haunted past will follow you like a lost dog on the beach
Nipping at your trail till you've drifted out of reach
Turn around, there's nothing to see here
Run away, no reason to be here
It's the ghost who never goes away
Turn around, and leave this behind now
See the ground as it bleeds into sky now
You fight the sea, you're always going to drown
The broken-line horizon and the castles made of sand
You tried to hold it in your hand, you tried to understand it
But the ocean asks the questions, and it holds the answers too
It dissolves away the lies about the things you thought you knew
Spilling out into the ocean floor
And the memory's all you left without a trace
Paralyzed with the thoughts receeding
The current sweeps you with its silent bleeding
Through the heart into the darkest place
Turn around, there's nothing to see here
Run away, no reason to be here
It's the ghost who never goes away
Turn around, and leave this behind now
See the ground as it bleeds into sky now
You fight the sea, you're always going to drown
All the secrets that you're holding
All the memories you hide
All the frail thoughts that echo in the corners of your mind
They won't even last a moment
The will soon be swept away
When the ocean takes you in its arms and carries you away
You carry all your burdens on the cross around your neck
You take whatever's left that you could salvage from the wreck
And that haunted past will follow you like a lost dog on the beach
Nipping at your trail till you've drifted out of reach
Turn around, there's nothing to see here
Run away, no reason to be here
It's the ghost who never goes away
Turn around, and leave this behind now
See the ground as it bleeds into sky now
You fight the sea, you're always going to drown
The broken-line horizon and the castles made of sand
You tried to hold it in your hand, you tried to understand it
But the ocean asks the questions, and it holds the answers too
It dissolves away the lies about the things you thought you knew
Lyrics submitted by CinderLunar
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Great version of a great song,
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