Kai Lim - Tide Pool

She wasn't planning on stopping. Just a quick walk. Then she saw the pool between the boulders. Forty minutes later she'd named a crab Gerald, photographed forty things, and made a friend who knew all the names she didn't. Tide pool. Stay another hour. [Lyrics] I wasn't planning on stopping at the rocks Just a quick walk before I had to be somewhere But then I saw the pool between the boulders And crouched to look and found a whole world there There was a crab the size of a thumbnail sideways And something purple that I couldn't name And everything was going about its business Completely unaware of me or that I came I've been here forty minutes on the rocks I was supposed to be somewhere by noon But the whole ocean is apparently in this small pool And I haven't found the bottom of it soon Tide pool, there's a whole world in here Tide pool, nothing is as small as it appears Tide pool, I was passing by and now I'm not Tide pool, can't believe the world I've got I came for a walk I came for fifteen minutes I came to do the thing that I had planned But the tide pool had entirely different ideas And I'm absolutely glad I didn't understand Tide pool Stay another hour I photographed approximately forty things And sent them to three people with no explanation I named the crab Gerald which I know is silly But he has that kind of energy and determination A kid came over and we looked together for a while She knew the names of everything I didn't We compared our finds like scientists at a conference Completely serious about every bit of it I've been here forty minutes on the rocks I was supposed to be somewhere by noon But the whole ocean is apparently in this small pool And I haven't found the bottom of it soon Tide pool, there's a whole world in here Tide pool, nothing is as small as it appears Tide pool, I was passing by and now I'm not Tide pool, can't believe the world I've got I came for a walk I came for fifteen minutes I came to do the thing that I had planned But the tide pool had entirely different ideas And I'm absolutely glad I didn't understand Tide pool Stay another hour Everything that matters in this life Is something you weren't planning to find You just have to stop when you see the tide pool And leave the schedule somewhere far behind Tide pool, there's a whole world in here Tide pool, nothing is as small as it appears Tide pool, I was passing by and now I'm not Tide pool, can't believe the world I've got I came for a walk I came for fifteen minutes I came to do the thing that I had planned But the tide pool had entirely different ideas And I'm absolutely glad I didn't understand Tide pool Stay another hour Still here Still looking Tide pool Gerald says hi ⓒ 2026 Kai Lim. All rights reserved. #KaiLim #TidePool #IndiePop #CoastalVibes #CuriousMind #FeelGoodMusic #FemaleSinger #NewMusic2026 #Discovery #StayAnotherHour