Tertiary

The sea keeps your secrets, it hums them to sleep

The salt on my lips tastes of what I can't keep

You left me with the turn of the tide

Heard no answer

Weary am I

You let go of me like the turn of a page

Am I tertiary

In your story

Oh, love, you were holy, and cruel just the same

I'd drown in your mercy, be washed by your name

Now I'm praying to god to the sound of the rain

You loved me, then left me unchanged

You left me with the turn of the tide

Heard no answer

Weary am I

You let go of me like the turn of a page

Am I tertiary

In your story

If forgiveness is fire, then let me be burned

If peace is a lesson, it's one never learned

The tide pulls me under, I don't resist

Because no matter what I do, the ache still returns

You taught me of love in the language of rain

And left me to sleep in its echo again

The moon's just a witness who'll never explain

Why beauty and loss share a name

The sea sighs your name in the dark of the deep

And I am the secret it promised to keep