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Fingers gently tracing through the sand
The sands of time and wishing I could go back
To the days where we scrawled funny little sayings
With our trembling hands and twigs.
The crashing waves
Washing away the gentle sound of your voice
As I hear it echo out from far away
Out of reach, no matter how hard I try
Once again trembling hands
Grasp at my now trembling heart
Trying so desperately to sing the same song
You always sang to me
Once fine sand
Now dyed a dirty brown
And covered with trash
Like the dusty photographs on my wall
These tender memories
Slipping away like fine grains of sand
Through my fingers
As I reach out with a trembling voice
Those silly little sayings
Those random pictures
Somehow always seem to reappear
In the foam of crashing waves
Carrying your tender voice
From so far away
But it's so faint
I can only hear little pieces of it
The rocky walkway
We teetered at the edge of
And held hands, staring out into the ocean
Making promises we couldn’t keep
Forever is impossible
For nothing lasts that long
Not even the memories
No matter how hard we try
Everything gets washed clean
The beach of the filth
The dusty photographs
And even my tattered soul
No matter how hard I reached out
I could not reach you
And now I realized how sad it was
To sing the same song you sang
Holding on desperately
To this thin red string
That kept us tied until now
I break it, and hope for the better
I turn my back on the now fine beach
Listening to the laughter of the people
The couples drawing the same silly pictures
And the same little sayings into the sand
I listen to the couples
Making the same promises we made
And knowing that their ignorance
Will only be rewarded with repetition
The glimmering tears
Falling down my cheeks
As I walk away from the ocean
And the crashing waves
Your voice fades from my hearing
Though never from my heart
No matter how much I try to continue
No matter how much I try to forget
That little red string dangles in my face
Constantly a cruel reminder
Of promises I couldn't keep.
Of promises of a forever that never came…
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