When The Trade Winds Changed

[Verse 1] Used to be a little dread hanging off to the side Caught every trade wind drifting by Rode shotgun through a thousand days Down red dirt roads and skatepark ways Never thought much about time back then Summer felt endless with all his friends Then one afternoon in the kitchen chair Jeremy hit the floor and wasn't there His mom just smiled and swept him away Like it was any other ordinary day Funny how the smallest things can disappear And somehow leave a silence in your ears [Chorus] And the trade winds changed direction Right there in the middle of the year Jeremy wasn't dancing anymore And Bee wasn't here Still the tide kept rising Still the sunsets lit the sky But some days you don't notice you're growing up Until something passes by [Verse 2] Bee was talking about leaving for weeks Trying to stay strong whenever she'd speak Family waiting on the other side Of an ocean much too wide So they spent their last days doing what they knew Walking shoreline trails in the afternoon Skipping stones and talking story after dark Leaving little footprints through the park Neither one said all they wanted to say Maybe some things work out that way The moon came up and the stars burned bright Then the plane lights disappeared into the night [Pre-Chorus] The island stayed the island The waves stayed the sea But the places felt a little different Than they used to be [Chorus] And the trade winds changed direction Right there in the middle of the year Jeremy wasn't dancing anymore And Bee wasn't here Still the tide kept rising Still the sunsets lit the sky But some days you don't notice you're growing up Until something passes by [Verse 3] Now he's skating roads he knows by heart Past the places where those memories start The guava trees and the lava stone bends The spots he used to roam with friends Sometimes he'll laugh at something small And remember Jeremy after all Or hear a song that Bee would sing And feel the pull of everything Not every goodbye comes with a tear Sometimes it just slowly disappears Like daylight fading from the bay Till you turn around and it's gone away [Bridge] He found an old photo in a dusty drawer Long blonde hair and a crooked grin Jeremy hanging over his forehead Bee laughing somewhere behind him For a minute it felt like yesterday Like none of it had ever changed But the picture only proved what time already knew Nothing stays exactly the same [Final Chorus] And the trade winds changed direction Somewhere along the way Jeremy became a memory And Bee moved away Still the waves keep breaking Still the stars fill up the night And the boy who chased every horizon Still follows them toward the light The roads keep winding forward The ocean calls his name And every chapter leaves a mark When the trade winds change [Outro] The surf rolled in... The trade winds blew... Some stories ended... So new ones could too... And Gunnar kept rolling.