Love Songs for India

Verse 1

I walked the shoreline, lost in grey Watching my footprints wash away Nothing I left there chose to stay But you're the one thing come what may

Pre-chorus

Everything fades if you let it go The tide keeps taking what it can But there's a feeling I want you to know

Chorus

India, you're the one thing that stays Steady while the whole world sways Nothing about this love delays You're the calm inside my days

Verse 2

The seaweed marks where the water stopped Dark little lines the sea has dropped Storms have come and I've never dropped This thing for you, it never stopped

Chorus

India, you're the one thing that stays Steady while the whole world sways Nothing about this love delays You're the calm inside my days

Bridge

Let the sand take what it takes I'm not scared of what it erases You're the one my whole heart makes Room for, in all of its spaces

Chorus

India, you're the one thing that stays Steady while the whole world sways Nothing about this love delays You're the calm inside my days

Outro

The footprints go, the shoreline stays bare But you're still here, and I'm still there

Verse 1

I found you where the grass leans low beside a wall that's lost some stone you held my hand and stood there still and something in me finally slowed

Pre-chorus

You don't ask to be the storm you're the ground that storms pass over steady as the light gets low

Chorus

India, you're the calm I chose not loud, but never far away every time the wind picks up India, you're the one who stays

Verse 2

Years could come and wear us thin like that wall beside the field but you don't crumble, you just bend and somehow that's what makes you real

Chorus

India, you're the calm I chose not loud, but never far away every time the wind picks up India, you're the one who stays

Bridge

Let the seasons take the colour I'll still know you in the dark you were never the loudest thing here you were always the steadiest part

Chorus

India, you're the calm I chose not loud, but never far away every time the wind picks up India, you're the one who stays

Outro

Let the grass keep bending low I'm still here beside the wall

Verse 1

I found boxes in the hall dust on shelves along the wall old paper stacked in fading light and still you cross my mind tonight

Pre-chorus

Nothing here is new or clean but nothing here is what it seems I keep it all because of you

Chorus

India, you're the one I keep under all this dust and sleep two syllables I hold onto India, I come home to you

Verse 2

Some drawers stay shut for years some pages soften into tears but you're the thing I never lose the one I never had to choose

Chorus

India, you're the one I keep under all this dust and sleep two syllables I hold onto India, I come home to you

Bridge

Everything else gets packed away but you stay out, you stay in reach you're not a thing I store or fade you're the one lesson I still teach

Chorus

India, you're the one I keep under all this dust and sleep two syllables I hold onto India, I come home to you

Outro

The boxes stay right where they are but you're the nearest thing, the near, the far