Ocean Is the Border
Girard
Ocean Is the Border
Verse 1
The sky folds down where the daylight ends,
Where the water breaks and the horizon bends,
No fences here, no walls to defend,
Just waves that arrive and never pretend.
Footsteps vanish in the shifting sand,
Like borrowed time slipping through the hand,
Every direction looks like a land,
But it’s all defined by the ocean’s plan.
Pre-Chorus
And I’ve been told since the day I could stand,
That everything starts where the sea meets the land…
Chorus
Ocean is the border, wide and unknown,
Carving out kingdoms from coral and stone,
It takes what it wants, but leaves you your own,
A freedom that feels like a weight of its own.
Ocean is the border, endless and blue,
Separating everything I thought I knew,
It keeps me from leaving, it brings me through,
It is the line I was born into.
Verse 2
Ships pass like questions that nobody asks,
Carrying futures in weathered masks,
Every return is a shadow that lasts,
Every goodbye gets swallowed so fast.
We learn our names from the edge of the tide,
From the push and pull of the turning side,
To belong here you learn how to ride
The space between what’s lost and what’s tied.
Pre-Chorus
And every dream that I’ve tried to defend,
Begins where the shoreline refuses to end…
Chorus
Ocean is the border, wide and unknown,
Carving out kingdoms from coral and stone,
It takes what it wants, but leaves you your own,
A freedom that feels like a weight of its own.
Ocean is the border, endless and blue,
Separating everything I thought I knew,
It keeps me from leaving, it brings me through,
It is the line I was born into.
Bridge
If I sail far enough, does it disappear?
Or does it follow in salt and fear?
Is the border out there—or right here,
In the way I define what I hold near?
Outro
So I stand where the ocean cuts the sky,
Between every truth and every lie,
And I learn that the edge is just a lie—
The ocean is the border… and so am I.