Name In Sand

(Verse#1)
Thousands of people, blessed with creation or grace
Try to write their name so it will live always
Carving through to bedrock underneath the shore
But the tide washes in before they can do any more

(Chorus)
Write your name in sand
Desperate sticks shaking in futile hands
Erased when time and tide so command
Write your name in sand

(Verse#2)
I envy those people floating in the sea
Floating through their lives so happily
While those upon the shore, prescient and afraid
Watch the collapse of those prints they’ve made

(Verse#3)
Dying for a chance at a kind of rebirth
Pleading with the world to demonstrate your worth
To leave something behind, a name to save
It might be recognized when you’re in your grave

(Chorus2)
Write your name in sand
The stick finally falls from dying hands
What a colossal joke Time has at its command
Write your name in sand

- Words and music by Dominic von Riedemann, copyright 2002 Aliens Ate My Buick Music. All rights reserved.

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