Lyrics
Winter came down through the paperbarks Left its rain along the shore The river leaned against the sand Like it had a hundred times before
Dark water holding all that country Tea-brown under a silver sky And somewhere past that narrow shoreline The open ocean waited wide
You can hold the water for a while You can tell it where to be But every river knows the answer When it gets close to the sea
Where the Betka meets the sea Where the dark runs into blue Where the things we've carried inland Finally come breaking through
No straight lines and no permission No promise where the channel leads Just the river finding freedom Where the Betka meets the sea
There are footprints on the winter beach Storm weed tangled in the foam Old tracks fading under new ones Every tide remaking home
From up above it all looks simple Sand and water, white and brown But down there every little current Is pulling half the coastline round
Maybe nothing stays forever Maybe that's how it should be Even stone gives way to water When it's trying to reach the sea
Where the Betka meets the sea Where the dark runs into blue Where the things we've carried inland Finally come breaking through
No straight lines and no permission No promise where the channel leads Just the river finding freedom Where the Betka meets the sea
I've spent years building little walls Against the things I couldn't change As if holding back the water Could ever make the water stay
But I've watched this coast through winters Seen it broken, seen it heal And the older that I'm getting The more I trust what's real
Rain will fall Sand will move Tides will turn Water chooses
Where the Betka meets the sea Where the dark runs into blue All the miles that came before it Disappear into the view
Let the winter break the shoreline Let the cold wind carry me There's a kind of peace in letting go Where the Betka meets the sea
Where the Betka meets the sea Nothing lost and nothing won Just the river and the ocean Becoming something one
You can hold the water for a while But eventually...
It finds the sea