Sandcastles is the first original singer-songwriter pop song I've released in over a decade, and the first to feature acoustic lever harp! It's about the struggle to accept the finiteness our human experiences in this world. It's about endings and the bittersweet last days of summer. Music Production by Jay Alton, featuring Scott Tran on violin.
Lyrics
Sandy castle near the water
The still air inside a cave
When the wishes that were granted
Turn to ashes all the same
It’s ok -in the end
All that was given was well spent
Turn to living in the moment.
As I look towards the sea
Where the ocean’s but a wave,
Not a photograph
But moving,
Like a picture’s fickle /frame
Not a painting, more a beauty and a beast
Can’t foretell and Can’t foresee
What this moment’s meant to be,
What will pass, what will last
By the ocean in the sand
What’s the castle meant to stand
And what’ll wash away.
What Is it we crave - In that quiet
Cave (in that quiet cave)
Why fight the change ,
Why can’t we just accept we cannot stay
Why is the eternal quest
To outdo and out-best
when in motion with the ocean
it’s the sands we can not test
ahhh.. ahhh....
Why the capture, why the hook,
All the moments that it took ,
String of promise,
Makes a net
Why is it I can’t forget
Swimming hard against the current-
Makes you only much more strained
While the salt in the water open wounds likes to spray.
What Is it we crave
In that quiet cave (in that quiet cave)
Why fight the change,
Why can’t we just accept we cannot stay,
Why is the eternal quest
To outdo and out-best
When in motion with the ocean
It’s the sands we can not test
Ahh.... Ahh.... Ahhh.... Ahhh....
When the soul's laid bare,
that's when the truth we share (truth we share)
All I promised I you gave
In the caverns of this cave
Hollow echoes of false hope
Must we lie so we can make
Our sandcastles in the sun
Just to cope and not to run
This mirage is all we know
And now it gave away..
And now it gave away
It gave away