Tide Don't Wait
From Grace & Grit
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About the Song
“Tide Don’t Wait” pairs a dark, hypnotic country-rock groove with lyrics about acting when the moment is there. Using tidal and wind imagery, it tells a story of losing certainty, choosing someone anyway, and moving with the pull rather than resisting it.
Song Details
- Album
- Grace & Grit
- Track
- 15
- Release Date
- September 18, 2026
- Runtime
- 04:50
- Genre
- Modern Country
- Influences
- Country Rock, Americana, Alt-Country
- Mood
- This record is dark, hypnotic, confident, yearning, spacious, and resolute.
- Themes
- Themes include seizing the moment, inevitability of change, romance with urgency, personal conviction, letting go, and nature/forces of the world as metaphor.
- BPM
- 106
- Time Signature
- 4/4
Lyrics
Watched a hundred sunsets burn off the bay
Thinking tomorrow would show me a sign
Kept telling myself there’d be a better day
Like the whole world would fall in line
Then one hard summer, the water ran wide
Pulled every maybe clean out of my hands
Watched that shoreline disappear with the tide
Learned nothing worth having waits on a man
Tide don’t wait, moon don’t stall
Water keeps climbing up the seawall
Wind turns east, daylight fades
You can move with it or watch it slip away
Tide don’t wait, hearts don’t lie
When the pull hits hard, you don’t ask why
When you know what you want, don’t hesitate
Tide don’t wait, nah tide don't wait
She came in easy as wind off the bay
Never once asked me to change my course
But the water underneath me shifted that day
And I knew better than fighting the force
Could’ve dropped anchor, stayed safe on the sand
Watched a good thing drift out of my sight
Instead I cut loose and reached for her hand
Been runnin’ with that current ever since that night
Tide don’t wait, moon don’t stall
Water keeps climbing up the seawall
Wind turns east, daylight fades
You can move with it or watch it slip away
Tide don’t wait, hearts don’t lie
When the pull hits hard, you don’t ask why
When you know what you want, don’t hesitate
Tide don’t wait, nah tide don't wait
You can build your walls up high
Still can’t tell the sea when to turn
Some things stronger than your pride
Only make sense after you learn
Final Hook
Tide don’t wait, moon don’t stall
Water keeps climbing up the seawall
Wind turns east, daylight fades
You can move with it or watch it slip away
Tide don’t wait, hearts don’t lie
When the pull hits hard, you don’t ask why
When you know what you want, don’t hesitate
Tide don’t wait, nah tide don't wait
Thinking tomorrow would show me a sign
Kept telling myself there’d be a better day
Like the whole world would fall in line
Then one hard summer, the water ran wide
Pulled every maybe clean out of my hands
Watched that shoreline disappear with the tide
Learned nothing worth having waits on a man
Tide don’t wait, moon don’t stall
Water keeps climbing up the seawall
Wind turns east, daylight fades
You can move with it or watch it slip away
Tide don’t wait, hearts don’t lie
When the pull hits hard, you don’t ask why
When you know what you want, don’t hesitate
Tide don’t wait, nah tide don't wait
She came in easy as wind off the bay
Never once asked me to change my course
But the water underneath me shifted that day
And I knew better than fighting the force
Could’ve dropped anchor, stayed safe on the sand
Watched a good thing drift out of my sight
Instead I cut loose and reached for her hand
Been runnin’ with that current ever since that night
Tide don’t wait, moon don’t stall
Water keeps climbing up the seawall
Wind turns east, daylight fades
You can move with it or watch it slip away
Tide don’t wait, hearts don’t lie
When the pull hits hard, you don’t ask why
When you know what you want, don’t hesitate
Tide don’t wait, nah tide don't wait
You can build your walls up high
Still can’t tell the sea when to turn
Some things stronger than your pride
Only make sense after you learn
Final Hook
Tide don’t wait, moon don’t stall
Water keeps climbing up the seawall
Wind turns east, daylight fades
You can move with it or watch it slip away
Tide don’t wait, hearts don’t lie
When the pull hits hard, you don’t ask why
When you know what you want, don’t hesitate
Tide don’t wait, nah tide don't wait