Bright Sadness - Sleeping At Last

A bright sunrise through shattered glass

A fountain of youth slipping through the cracks

I drag my feet through perfect sand

Toward a future I no longer understand

My daughter’s collection of broken shells

Teach me: I can still learn lessons if I let myself

«I'll be alright, I’ll be alright, I’ll be alright»

It’s been a year at the mercy of a merciless tide

But now we’re here, clothes barely dry

We return to the ocean one more time

For you

In the water

We pay attention

To one another

In the water

We remember

That nothing, even death

Lasts forever

I want to swim, I want to swim, I want to try

To trust in the mercy of the merciless tide

My mother taught me all will be reconciled

God, what a gift to be my mother’s child

I want to swim, I want to swim and close my eyes

Be swept up in the mercy of the merciful tide

My mother believed I will be reconciled

God, what a gift to be my mother’s child

In the water

We remember

That nothing, even death

Lasts forever