It’s said if you hold a seashell to your ear
The sound of the ocean is what you may hear
And just like the seashell remembers the sea
If I had a seashell of your memory
I’d wear it round my neck to keep you with me.
I’d hold it to my ear for something to be heard
To hear you call my name, say one little word
The sound of your breathing soft and discrete
Or the rhythmic sounds of your heartbeat
I’d press my lips against it, to try and reminisce
Your intoxicating smell and the passion in your kiss
I would embrace it and try to once again feel
Being in your arms and feeling surreal
Then I’ll take that shell and place my feelings inside
Throw it back in the ocean and let the sea be the guide
Let it go through the waters so vast and blue
So it can find its way over to you
Maybe like me, in it you will find
The feeling of me and you intertwined
When someone you love is so far away
It seems like a year when it’s just been a day
You seem to live lifetimes in the passing of years
When you’re waiting for someone that your heart reveres
Still consider how many people can say
That they loved and lived a year in a day
I consider myself lucky and that is no lie
To have had so much time to say goodbye
So if I have to love you through a shell from the sea
I’d love you that way until you come back to me
And until that day should happen to fall
I feel blessed to be able to love you at all.