Hour glass

PERPETUAL ALMOST

Verse 1

Seconds like grains of sand,

Exfoliating the concept of time,

Scraping meaning from the clock face,

Leaving only motion behind.

The future softens into powder,

The past dissolves in my hands,

And all that’s left between them

Is the steady fall of sand.

Pre-Chorus

I keep trying to arrive somewhere,

But it always slips away,

Like the edge of understanding

Just before it turns to gray.

Chorus

If time is just a river

Carving canyons through the land,

Then love is what remains

After the water leaves the sand.

Verse 2

Each thought a rabbit hole,

Scratching at invisible itches,

Something in me keeps spiraling,

Whispering names, those bitches.

Every realization

Just folds back into itself,

Like trying to hold together

Something breaking on the shelf.

Pre-Chorus

And I swear I almost had it,

Then it slips before I know,

Like meaning at the edges

Of a place I never go.

Chorus

If time is just a river

Carving canyons through the land,

Then love is what remains

After the water leaves the sand.

Bridge

My mind keeps drawing circles

Around truths it cannot hold,

Tracing fingerprints on water,

Watching certainty unfold.

Every answer splits in two,

Every doorway leads within,

I keep mistaking understanding

For a place I’ve never been.

And the harder that I chase it,

The less there is to find,

Until I’m standing in the silence

With sand slipping through my mind.

Final Chorus (soft)

If time is just a river

Carving canyons through the land,

Then love is what remains

After the water leaves the sand.