Trying to Hold the Ocean

Demo - updated

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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