Slipping Through My Hands

Whispers in the wind Calling me back, faded photographs Paths we wore to grass Paths we once trekked The old wooden porch where we carved our dreams Swinging in the summer Lost in moonbeams Your laughter echoed through the hollow trees Now, silence wrapped around these memories I packed my bag With the weight of goodbye Left the past With the river running Under endless sky But every mile pulls tighter on my heart Oh, the home we knew Slipping through my hands Roots run deep But I'm chasing open lands Shadow Carrying you And your ghost Belongs It's the river, a river I can't perceive Letters yellow Words from a world away Family ties Teaching me to rise Through the ache and pain Travel this song in the dead of night Searching for the light home we knew Slipping through my hands Roots run deep But I'm chasing open lands Heartbreak in the distance Shadows on the road Hold on Don't break the loss It's the real river I can't forsake And in the quiet hours When the stars align Weaving through the pine No justice in the dark In the parting No easy man Just the fire within That refuses to win How I wonder Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Of what came after death Defying the shadows Of what came after death Of what came after death Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Defying the shadows Defying the shadows