Sand

Album: Red Velvet Car (2010)
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  • I asked a distant star
    I wonder where you are
    The shadow at my door
    A friend who is no more
    I watched him go to the wind
    I close my eyes
    Goodbye, goodbye my friend

    Friends and family
    The branches of the tree
    Sheltered in the rain
    Telling me again
    No matter how raindrops run
    World will turn
    Turn back to the sun
    Yeah, yeah

    A trick of light upon our eyes
    A trick of time upon our lives
    Ancient songs cry out to you
    Surely this sweet sand is slipping through

    I watched him go to the wind
    I close my eyes
    Goodbye, goodbye my friend yeah

    A trick of light upon our eyes
    A trick of time upon our lives
    Ancient songs cry out to you
    And surely this sweet sand is slipping through
    Slipping through the glass of time
    Surely this sweet sand will run on by and by
    And while the days come down to you
    You are just a traveler passing through, yeah
    Yeah Writer/s: ANN DUSTIN WILSON, FRANK R. COX, NANCY LAMOUREAUX WILSON, SUSAN L. ENNIS
    Publisher: MUSIC & MEDIA INT'L, INC., Universal Music Publishing Group, Word Collections Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Hugh from Santa Monica, California. . . and as the Tin Man said to Dorthy , , ,
    I know I have a heart . . . because I can feel it breaking
  • Mark from New York, NyAnn Wilson has said that she wrote this song for her gardener who died.
  • Patricia from Pueblo, CoActually, Nancy Wilson said that about the song "Hey You."
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