1 He Walks the Tide
He breaks the swell
He walks the tide away
And a wave dissolves his footsteps in the sand
I lie down along the seafoam wake
And I hold the rising water in my hand
We’re unbound
And the sky’s an overlay
Closing in
He walks all night
To keep the tide away
And I watch the gold horizon line expand
I look up, where shapes and colors play
And the descending arc inside my head
Is ready to land
In this curve of light
I’ll stay until they fly away again
Keep me in your sight
But send me to the water’s edge
Alone
We walk the tide away
We face down the sea
Like shells in a line here
Never drowned
Just washed to another beach
Crushed by another wave
Polished by grains
Never leaving the shore for long
Though they may try to pull me down
And hold me under again
In this curve of light
I’ll stay until they fly away again
Keep me in your sight
But send me to the water’s edge
Alone
And in this curve of light
Surround me now
Surround me now
Like the tide
2 Heron
I stall, all out of phase again
Like an ascender
Pulled back down onto the scale
I dream a blue-crested heron
He rules low and high here
He’s always divining
Slowing the air, turning the flow
Cannonball, over the waterfall
All through the lurid sky, rebounding
He’s in me, keeping eternity
Out of sight
He’s here again
I know he’s here again
Now through the racing, pounding, surging wall
Face down with intention
Grab the lip of a boulder
Sliding off the ledge
Ring my broken fingers ‘round
The ankle of a bird
Grip of hollow iron bone
Oh saver and denier
Trainer, magnifier
Anchored ‘til I yield again
Rising in your span
Cannonball, over the waterfall
All through the lurid sky, rebounding
He’s in me, keeping eternity
Out of sight
He’s here again
I know he’s here again
And this world is a falling light
And this world is a falling light
And eternity in my sight
I’m ready to ride the cannonball
And eternity in my sight
I’m ready to ride the cannonball
And eternity in my sight
And this world is a falling light
And he knows my name
Now he flies
Over the grove
Over the reeds, down in the reeds
Into the yellow leaves
And the yellow fog
In the golden sky
3 Radial Mind
Welcome to her fountainhead
There is no mistake here
Can’t you tell she’s loyal by the scope in her eye?
She scans it up, and you scan it down
And do it again
You crawl down with her in that treasure hole
Roots grow together like a marigold twine
And when the flower’s gone
She imagines your new design
This is your one life
You press on like pilgrims
Through the mountains
Into the core again
And you’ve come a long way
Just to give it up for a lucky streak
Six out of ten
So you brave the passage
With her float and your flare
You know you’re guided
But you don’t know to where
And when the fog is gone
All the wheels are spinning in air
Fall again into this radial mind
Round and round the never ending
Re-trace and re-defend
All is mended in this radial mind
Strike that lie in the shut of an eye
Strike that lie in the shut of an eye
Oh do you hear
The chattering of butterflies
In this blue blue sky?
And if she taught you how
To climb up on the carousel of stars
Would you never leave her?
You’re promised nothing
But the break of day
You crave forever
And you hope it comes soon
And when the arrows rain
You’ll escape on your loaded balloon
Fall again into this radial mind
Round and round the never ending
Re-trace and re-defend
All is mended in this radial mind
Round and round the never ending
Strike that lie in the shut of an eye
Strike that lie in the shut of an eye
Scars cross this burdened ground
They’re calling up believers
To the engines now
Hold her close, she’ll pull you through again
All one in the turning sound
And you are a circle in the light, you are a circle in the light
And you are a circle in the light
Fall again into this radial mind
Round and round the never ending
Re-trace and re-defend
All is mended in this radial mind
Round and round the never ending
Strike that lie In the shut of an eye
Strike that lie In the shut of an eye
Strike that lie In the shut of an eye
4 Steal a Ray
What went wrong?
All of the cables and lines
Got crossed in my brain
It’s been so long
But I still remember the rush
When the questions came
They didn’t answer
With all secrets unbound
Does a bird miss her cage?
They didn’t answer
Only silence on my page
I’ll stand in the light again
Tell me, does a battery feel this way?
I’ll stand in the light again
And steal a ray, steal a ray
Twenty years of finding my way
By a guide post just out of sight
Grace and fear
Running me through
Like a current moves dark into bright
I didn’t answer
Was the moment all gone
Before one word was said
I couldn’t answer
Through the silence in my head
I’ll stand in the light again
Tell me, does a battery feel this way?
I’ll stand in the light again
And steal a ray
Steal
Now, now untangled
Untangled, unsealed and unopposed
All my answers
Too brave and long
I’ll stand in the light again
I’ll stand in the light again
And steal a ray, steal a ray
5 Warning Bell
She’s dangerous, they said
Her riddle eyes suck in all the light
Yeah, angels rang for me
And the sound of the sky was mine
They buzz me in my bed
Then break the ties and stand me upright
In the shine again
And I’m full of the shine
You said my love
Was a warning bell, ringing madly
Now I’m locked inside this humming cell
Very, stand very far away
I don’t want you near me
Leave me my resonance
My cool, silver harmony
Close me in
Where no tone can bend me
I’m saving everything
They’re dangerous, I said
See the wreckage of the freight
Feel the cut of the binding
Hear the knocking pipe, in a heart full of ice
Ready to blow
Quivers in my pulsing head
Blend in a racket of knives
Drawn for show
You said my love
Was a warning bell, ringing madly
Now we’re safe inside this guarded cell
Very, stand very far away
I don’t want you near me
Leave me my resonance
My cool, silver harmony
Hold me in this red light shadow
I’m saving everything
Full blast these chimes
Full blast these chimes
And amplify, amplify
In waves and lines and waves and lines
And waves and lines
You said my love
Was a warning bell
No mute can restrain
Very, stand very far away
I don’t want you near me now
Leave me my resonance
My cool, silver harmony
Hold me in the red light shadow
Oh very far away I don’t want you near me
6 Vista (Instrumental)
7 City of Love
City of love, your wall against me
Brace me, ungate my way
City of love, under cruel blockade
City of love, so tall against me
I’ll call this trade
The hooks on that chain
They held me down
I was the charge
Shot through a wire
Maybe I missed him
While I was contained
Immobile on the front line
In waiting, to invade this place
City of love, your wall against me
Brace me, ungate my way
City of love, under cruel blockade
City of love, so tall against me
I’ll call this trade
I want to go there
Go back to that starting grace
Sit at the King’s table and test for poison
Knowing I’ll live to tell
To find and then defuse the hidden door
I’ll be the shadow
Shadow in the tower window
Throwing down my flame
City of love, your wall against me
Brace me, ungate my way
City of love, under cruel blockade
City of love, so tall against me
I’ll call this trade
City of love, your wall against me
Brace me, ungate my way
City of love, so tall against me
I’ll call this trade
Tall against it
Tall against it
Oh ungate my way
8 Hideaway
Untethered and torn at the roots
Kept my steady-on pace for days
I followed a path through the woods
Silver arrows shot through a black haze
Where are you now?
Stripe of a summer rainbow?
You showed me how
To chart the stars to freedom
I looked away
I go dark like a stranger
With my intricate danger
In this hideaway
And I carry the weight of us
On the trail through my days
‘Til my memory scolds me again
I’m settled like debts
In a broken old safe in the corner
Where are you now?
A stone in my winter garden?
Heat on my brow, just as the sun
Is leaving my cabin play, my cabaret?
Dark like a stranger
With my intricate danger
What would you give in exchange
For this hideaway?
However you save your life again
Wherever you go
It all becomes you
With all that you know
In all that you do
I am here in this hideaway
And you’re no stranger
To danger
9 Build it Again
I recall the summer we hid in the basement
You were sure you spoke to God that day
We did all we could do
To keep the dirty hand of fate away
Now there’s a bar above you
Higher than all the hills you’ve climbed
Ready to jump?
I’ll spring your line
We’ll build it again
Whatever tools we need
We’ll steal, not borrow
We’ll build it again
Gonna be tall and strong
Oh I know what this love can bear
Raise that broken tower
Raise that broken tower
And build it again
Cause, effect
And something magic in the middle
Brought us here
Into this fallen dome
Now there’s a star above you
Lighting the end of your disguise
Maybe there’s one more
Beautiful surprise
We’ll build it again
Whatever tools we need
We’ll steal, not borrow
We’ll build it again
Gonna be tall and strong
Oh I know what our love can bear
Raise that broken tower
Raise that broken tower
And build it again
Send me up the ladder
I’m steady in the height
When my feet are on the wire
I’ll see the eagle return
From her wander in exile
Back to her place up on the crown
With my feathers in her hands
We’ll build it again
Gonna be tall and strong
Raise that broken tower
Raise that broken tower
And build it again
We’ll build it again
Gonna be tall
We’ll build it again
Whatever tools we need
We’ll build it again
Gonna be tall
10 Somewhere to Go
I wait
For the ice to be fluid again
Oh matter of heart
Melt this matter of mind
Send me a tether line
And a through way
And I’ll be on the road
They say tonight the comets are coming down
Ten every hour buzz the lunatic moon
But in my mourner’s sky
I see one trail, moving slow
We may move our eyes off the map tonight
We may never know if the time is right
But still we run, into that little light
Still we come, all loaded for the fight
Maybe we’re already, already near
Maybe we’re already here
In our somewhere to go
I could stay here
And chase down all those readymade plans
Find places to hide in the snow again
But send me a tether line
To the good days
And I’ll be gone
We may move our eyes off the map tonight
And we may never know if the time is right
But still we run, into that little light
Still they come and say “you wanna fight?”
And maybe we’re already, already near
Maybe we’re already here
In our somewhere to go
Send me a tether line full of love
Full of love
You may move your eyes
Off the map
Drive on through the night again
Maybe you’re close, so close
Closer than you know
To your somewhere to go
11 Timewave
I’m not gonna lie
I dreamed us dead
In the early morning, another bomb in my head
I woke you up, you turned away
Oh in this paralysis, I wanted to stay
I’m remembering the way we left it
With the world still spinning easy days
They rolled on end to end
All that we could not unwind
Engraving me, like sun through the shade
Grid of lines, burn as they fade
Timewave this timewave
Not gonna ride the retrograde
Timewave this timewave
We can’t redo the never-made
Pull on through like a little blade
Sliding off the timewave again
Maybe I never got it right
Tried to prove my theory
With a gossamer kite
All my cautions
All the burden not unfurled
They relieve and they condemn me
Are you remembering the things we said
When all the world was heaving
And we tried to break the seal again
Waiting for one hope to climb
You know I will be with you then
Timewave this timewave
Not gonna ride the retrograde
Timewave this timewave
We can’t redo the never-made
Pull on through like a little blade
Stay with me here
Timewave, timewave
On the timewave
I can’t undo the retrograde
Time, oh timewave this timewave
Not gonna ride the retrograde
Timewave
Stay with me on the timewave
We can’t redo the never-made
Pull on through like a little blade
Stay with me here
In the timewave
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All lyrics copyright 2026 Emily Bezar. All rights reserved. Lyrics for Emily's other albums can be found on her Bandcamp page.