Curiosity as a Shoreline
Title: Curiosity as a Shoreline
[Verse 1]
I woke up with a hundred doors
Half-open in my mind
Books and dreams and borrowed lives
All waving from the tide
A sentence from a coworker
A song I meant to write
A future self beneath a tree
Still calling through the night
[Pre-Chorus]
And I don’t want a smaller world
I don’t want a quieter sea
I just need a place where all these waves
Can come and still leave me
[Chorus]
Give me curiosity as a shoreline
Somewhere the wild thoughts can land
Let the tide bring shells and questions
Then roll back from my hands
I don’t need to drink the ocean
I don’t need to know it all
Just enough to feel it moving
Just enough to hear it call
Curiosity as a shoreline
Not a flood inside the walls
[Verse 2]
There are lives I want to ask about
There are books I want to know
There are paths that flash like minnows
In the water as I go
And every yes has reasons
Every no has ghosts
Every open window wonders
What it means to be a door
[Pre-Chorus]
And I don’t want to lose the thread
I don’t want to lose the day
I just need a way to love the light
Without giving all away
[Chorus]
Give me curiosity as a shoreline
Somewhere the wild thoughts can land
Let the tide bring shells and questions
Then roll back from my hands
I don’t need to drink the ocean
I don’t need to know it all
Just enough to feel it moving
Just enough to hear it call
Curiosity as a shoreline
Not a flood inside the walls
[Bridge]
Let some boats stay distant
Let some bottles drift on by
Let some maps remain unfinished
Let some gulls keep the sky
I can bless the passing weather
I can choose what comes ashore
I can love a thousand doorways
And still walk through one door
[Final Chorus]
Give me curiosity as a shoreline
Room for the strange and the true
For the memoirs and the morning pages
For the life I’m growing into
I don’t need to chase each current
I don’t need to answer all
Just enough to stay awake here
Just enough to feel the call
Curiosity as a shoreline
Where the waves can rise and fall
[Outro]
Let the ocean keep its mystery
Let the day keep one small plan
Let me gather what is given
Then return to where I am