Your Shoes by My Door

Lyrics

I’m thinking dark, intimate, feminine R&B, with painfully vulnerable lyrics, a little bitterness, and that particular kind of yearning where you know someone isn’t yours, but you keep finding pieces of them everywhere. I can’t replicate Bella Kay’s exact lyrical style, but I can capture that raw, confessional energy with original lyrics. The tidepools represent being left with just enough of someone to remember what having all of them felt like. TIDEPOOLS Alternative R&B · Slow, atmospheric · Melancholic Verse 1 You leave your shoes beside my door Like you still live here anymore And I don’t move them, I just stare At all the things you leave somewhere I used to think the ocean stayed If you were good enough to wait Now I’m collecting what you spill In little holes the water fills Pre-Chorus And I hate how the moon gets to pull you When I’ve been begging you to move I could drown in something shallow If it meant I’d drown with you Chorus You only love me in tidepools When the ocean’s out of reach Give me just enough to hold you Never enough to keep And I know you’re coming back But you never come for me I’m just something that you touch On your way back to the sea Oh, I want you God, I want you Even when there’s nothing left to lose I’m still waiting in your tidepools Verse 2 I learned the shape of every wave The little lies your silence makes You say my name so carefully Like saying more would ruin me And I’ve been trying not to count The ways you love me halfway now You kiss my forehead, call me sweet Then tell me who you want to meet Pre-Chorus Isn’t it cruel how the shoreline Gets to feel you every night? And I could spend my whole life reaching Never get the timing right Chorus You only love me in tidepools When the ocean’s out of reach Give me just enough to hold you Never enough to keep And I know you’re coming back But you never come for me I’m just something that you touch On your way back to the sea Oh, I want you God, I want you Even when there’s nothing left to lose I’m still waiting in your tidepools Bridge Maybe I’m not made for deep water Maybe you’re not made to stay Maybe I’ve been calling it love When you just couldn’t get away And it’s embarrassing, isn’t it? How little I would take You could give me half a second I’d make it last for days If you ever loved me fully Would I know what that would mean? I’ve been living off the leftovers Of a love I’ve never seen Final Chorus You only love me in tidepools And I’m tired of being small I could have the whole damn ocean Still I’d want you most of all And the tide is getting higher And there’s nowhere left to breathe You’re the only thing I’ve wanted That was never meant for me Oh, I want you I still want you And that’s the part I wish wasn’t true Outro, whispered The water always leaves The water always leaves But look at me Still saving room for you.