Salt and the Sea Lyrics
One, two, three, four
[Verse 1]
Could it be I was the one
That you held so deep in the night?
On the back staircase
You fell to your knees with tears in your eyes
[Refrain]
All that you suffered, all the disease
You couldn't hide it, hide it from me
[Verse 2]
All alone, scared in your room
Would you swear there's nobody home?
On the bed, laying awake
As you prayed he'd leave you alone
[Refrain]
I'll let the darkness swallow me whole
I need to find you, need you to know
[Chorus]
I'll be your friend in the daylight again
There we will be, like an old enemy
Like the salt and the sea
And they wrote all these prescriptions
They wrote me off like a heel
Yeah, the doctors with their medicine
Left me to rock in my filth
[Refrain]
From the destruction, out of the flame
You need a villain, give me a name
[Chorus]
I'll be your friend in the daylight again
There we will be, like an old enemy
I'll be your friend in the daylight again
There we will be, like an old enemy
Like the salt and the sea
Like the salt and the sea
About
“Salt and the Sea” is a song by American folk rock band The Lumineers for their third studio album III. It was released as the third and final single from the album on April 13, 2020 through Dualtone Records. The song reached number 26 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart.
Q&A
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It’s funny how life works. We were opening for U2, and M. Night Shyamalan was backstage. We struck up a friendship with him, and when he was making Glass, he said, ‘I need a certain kind of song for when the credits roll.’ He described the movie, and so we tried on a different hat when we wrote what became ‘Salt and the Sea.’ It’s got this James Bond chord progression, and it has this tension running through it. We had no plans to put that song on the album, but once we’d written it for him, I said to Jer, ‘Man, I really hope we can put it on our record’ We liked it so much. And then, as luck would have it, he told us it didn’t work in the movie, and that was more than fine for us. So we accidentally got pushed into that direction, and I think ‘Salt and the Sea’ fits well with the energy of ‘My Cell’ and ‘Jimmy Sparks.’ There’s a darkness to that last part of the record.
— Schultz for The Lumineers' website
The video premiered on September 19th, 2019 on The Lumineers’s official Youtube channel.
- 1.Donna
- 3.Gloria
- 7.My Cell
- 8.Jimmy Sparks
- 9.April
- 10.Salt and the Sea
- 13.Soundtrack Song
