Orchid

Lyrics

I’m thinking devastating childhood-friends-to-lovers yearning. The kind of song where he’s loved her so long that he genuinely cannot remember when friendship became something more. And the worst part? She looks in the mirror and hates the very things he’s spent his whole life falling in love with. Sonically, imagine intimate acoustic guitar, a trembling male vocal, and a chorus that gradually becomes this enormous, desperate confession. Romantic, ocean-soaked, and painfully sincere. 🌊 ORCHID Original lyrics • Acoustic pop ballad • 82 BPM Verse 1 We were thirteen, running barefoot Down the coastline after dark You were chasing every wave in I was chasing where you are You kept seashells in your bedroom I kept everything you said Funny how the smallest moments Are the ones I can’t forget And you still call me when you’re lonely Still fall asleep against my chest You say I’m the only one who knows you God, I wish you knew the rest Pre-Chorus ‘Cause you talk about your body Like it’s something you should hide And I swear I feel the ocean Breaking somewhere deep inside Chorus Oh, Orchid If you could see you through my eyes You’d never spend another night Wishing you were someone else Oh, darling I’ve loved you longer than I’ve known What it means to call somebody home And I’m drowning in the words I never tell You think you’re hard to love I think you’re everything And if the ocean swallowed up the sun I’d still know where to swim Oh, Orchid You’re perfect, can’t you see? And it’s killing me That you don’t see what I see Verse 2 You were seventeen and crying In the bathroom at some dance Said the dress made you look different And you couldn’t understand Why somebody would be looking When there’s prettier girls around I was standing in the hallway Trying not to make a sound ‘Cause I’d spent the whole damn evening Trying not to stare at you And you were busy finding reasons Not to love the way you looked And I almost told you everything But you needed me as a friend So I swallowed down the feeling Like I’ve done since we were kids Pre-Chorus 2 And I know the shape of your laughter Know the freckles on your skin But I don’t know how to save you From the war you’re living in Chorus Oh, Orchid If you could see you through my eyes You’d never spend another night Wishing you were someone else Oh, darling I’ve loved you longer than I’ve known What it means to call somebody home And I’m drowning in the words I never tell You think you’re hard to love I think you’re everything And if the ocean swallowed up the sun I’d still know where to swim Oh, Orchid You’re perfect, can’t you see? And it’s killing me That you don’t see what I see Bridge: Quiet, building into a desperate crescendo And I hate that he gets to hold you When I’ve held you through the worst That he gets to say you’re beautiful When I’ve been saying it without the words And I know that you don’t owe me All the love I couldn’t say But I’ve watched a thousand sunsets And still looked at you that way If I could take the things you hate And wash them out to sea I’d let the whole damn ocean rise And take what’s left of me But I can’t make you love yourself And I can’t make you love me So I’ll stay here on the shoreline Of everything we’ll never be Final Chorus: Full instrumentation, soaring vocals OH, ORCHID IF YOU COULD SEE YOU THROUGH MY EYES YOU’D NEVER QUESTION FOR A SECOND WHY I’VE STAYED HERE ALL MY LIFE Oh, darling I’ve loved you since the world was small Before we knew what love was called Before the tide could pull us out to sea And you think you’re hard to love But loving you comes naturally And if the ocean took away the shore I’d love you just as endlessly Oh, Orchid If you never fall for me I just hope someday you see Everything that I see Outro: Soft acoustic guitar, almost whispered We were thirteen, running barefoot You were laughing in the rain And if I knew how this would end up I’d still love you all the same Oh, Orchid I wish you could believe You’re everything to me.