Did you ever watch the one you love Slowly drifting away from you? And you know deep in your heart There is nothing that you can do To make her stay To turn the tide To ease the pain That you feel deep inside When her eyes say it's over and done

Broken dreams so grand, sing of his final stand, long live Carolus Brought by soldiers hand, back to the fatherland, long live Carolus Rex Killed by his own or by his foes, turned the tide Three hundreds years still no one knows, the secret remains

Living on a paper sun Cause you're living on a paper sun Blind to all the damage done Waiting for the tide to turn All your dreams have come and gone There's not a reason why you've come undone There's nothing left to justify, this can't go on There's

In the fall, in the fall, when the tide took them all I gave my life to save her The ocean turned to red Cut down like lambs at slaughter, Good men were left for dead Time rolling along with the waves, A thousand miles away Holding you close in the rain,

Never alone, never apart We found each other in the dark Shed our tears and fight our fears We are one, the lonely hearts We are ready for war We can always turn the tide We fight together, not alone We are not lost here together We are not lost anymore

So when the waves come rolling in Then I won't turn the tide And in the line of fire You'll set me aside So go on Richard let go On our last trip to the coast We watched the boats sail the sea "How effortlessly they float" You turned and said to me

Sun dogs fire on the horizon Meteor rain stars across the night This moment may be brief Energy is contagious Enthusiasm spreads Tides respond to lunar gravitation Everything turns in synchronous relation Laughter is infectious Excitement goes to my head

Sweet tides, pools of love Your eyes are full of It took so long, for me to realize How strong your heart is And all this time, my mind was working In strange ways Through the love in your eyes Sharp turn, my mind is a blur Slow passage through the air

Watch your mouth when you lettin' shit slide Don't you know I got way too much pride? Sneak dissin' way on the other side I turn your fucking wave to a tide I'm so fucking tired Somehow I still find the time To care a little more about my rhymes To care

There's magic in the water that attracts all men Across hills and down streams The turning of the tide Future bright Beauty shines Light cloud rain drive on Thirteen years to this day red planet aligned