It’s moving very quickly these days
I try to step back but it’s hard to stay
I’m looking at my hands and I see that they’ve changed
Like me, like you
 
We’ve tumbled through the years and the fluid days
The moment slips by and it shifts away
A look over my shoulder as we grow older
A pillar of salt, me
 
If it’s true what they say, this life
A little passing strife
And if it’s true what they say, I’m fine
 
But hold you, I will
I will, I will
 
I’m storing up your face inside my heart
And I will keep it safe when it all falls apart
The slipping of our hands as we all go alone
I don’t know
 
If it’s true what they say, it’s life
A little passing strife
And if it’s true what they say, I’m fine
We give it a little time
 
But hold you, I will.
I will, I will
 
And the stars, when they shine
They don’t shine for me
 
But hold you, I will
I will, I will

Demos

Hold You, I Will (rough)

A long night
The stars are asleep as she walks on the beach
Alone without them
Memory pulls on her fingers
The way their hands did
But the small childish grip
Slowly fades and is gone

Time gets away
Every damn day like the last one
If only she’d known
How fast it goes
Now she’s left on the shore
As the day comes to close
And all the boats are gone

Soft tide
Lapping the rocks as she stands on the docks
With the words she could never say enough.
“Know you were loved by me”
She shouts to the sky and the land
And the cold unforgiving sea
But it won’t bring them back.

There is a faint light
Moving over the waves
In a distant bay
It’s not much, it's not nearly enough, but it’s all there is.

She’ll watch until the dawn.

Time Gets Away (rough)

You stepped onto the boat
I stayed here on the shore
The water was cold
And deep and cruel
Still you sailed away all the same

I remember your face
I remember your laugh in the dark

I call you back – come and play, come and sing with me
I call you back to me

And every day I prayed
That you were sleeping safe
Life went on
I married, had a son
And in the night my bones will ache

New Ideas

Call You Back (rough)

Cold early start we set out
The world not so safe not now
We wear borrowed skins to try to hide the sin
That lies heavy on our hearts

Into the woods
Don't look back now
Won't look back now no
Into the woods
We go

The leaves crowd out the sun
Until the path is gone
We sit and despair
With brambles in our hair
And we wait for a long sleepless night

Into the woods
Don't look back now
Won't look back now no
Into the woods
We go

Who would have thought
You could not forgive?
Who would have thought
You'd bar up the gates?
And send us into the woods
Don't look back now
Won't look back now no
Into the woods
Our home

You say we will learn we will grow
Slow redemption of souls
So we leave you behind to see what we will find
For ourselves by ourselves

Into the woods
Don't look back now
Won't look back now no
Into the woods
We go

Into the woods
We'll grow strong
Into the woods
We go

Aliyah Keshani