Riptides

Album: I Built You a Tower (2026)
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  • These days I say goodbye
    Without opening my mouth
    I just stare into the distance
    'Til you figure it out
    'Cause I feel as invested
    As a border guard
    Who's seen too many people
    Leaving to take it to heart

    I'm too tired to talk
    I'm too tired to end the war
    And I can't seem
    To hold it together anymore

    And my old haunts
    Each one's a trigger and I'm holding the gun
    Like a perp frozen in your headlights
    Who forgot to run
    And I'm overcome by the voices
    Multiplying in the crowd
    It's been swelling in between my ears
    And growing frighteningly loud

    I'm too tired to talk
    I'm too tired to end the war
    And I can't seem to hold it together anymore
    I'm too tired to start
    I can't bring you up to speed
    There's too many riptides
    In this ocean to proceed

    And though I'm feeling fine
    Roughly half the time
    There's a fatal flaw
    In my heart's design

    I'm too tired to talk
    I'm too tired to end the war
    And I can't seem to hold it together anymore
    I'm too tired to start
    I can't bring you up to speed
    There's too many riptides
    In this ocean to proceed

    There's too many riptides
    In this ocean to proceed Writer/s: Benjamin Gibbard
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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