I’ve watched the sun rise slow
across your face
The kind of light that don’t come twice
in one place
You laugh like rain
that don’t ask for permission
And I stand still
like I’m caught in a vision
I’m reading letters
written in the sky
But every word
just leaves me asking why
How do I hold
what was never meant to fit inside my hands?
Trying to hold the ocean
like it’s grains of sand
You’re fire and breath,
you’re wind and holy water
I’m undone
and I don’t even want to understand
Trying to hold the ocean
Trying to hold the ocean
Your silence speaks louder
than most men’s songs
I’ve been wrong before,
but never this long
You don’t come close
just to prove you’re near
You come like thunder,
then you disappear
And every time I think
I’ve got it clear
You pull me deeper
till the fear turns to tears
How do I hold
what was never meant to fit inside my hands?
Trying to hold the ocean
like it’s grains of sand
You’re fire and breath,
you’re wind and holy water
I’m undone
and I don’t even want to understand
Trying to hold the ocean
Trying to hold the ocean
So I’ll stop counting
all the things I’ll never know
Let mystery be the seed
I choose to sow
If love’s a wild thing,
let it run
I’ll follow it
until the sun
How do I hold
what was never meant to fit inside my hands?
Trying to hold the ocean
like it’s grains of sand
You’re fire and breath,
you’re wind and holy water
I’m undone
and I don’t even want to understand
Trying to hold the ocean
Trying to hold the ocean
-Lyrics and music by Dan R Blincoe II
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