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Salt on Sand Lyrics by Ziz Adler

Song to the Sun

2022

[Verse]
I don’t know why I replied
When you asked me where I’d gone
I wish that I’d denied it
But you’re so much like my mom
And I think you kind of knew
And I’ve always been afraid of you
And fear distorts my words
Until they somehow come out true
[Verse]
I told you I had left
Because you made me feel small
Which was not at all a lie
But which was not your fault at all
I evaporated every time you couldn’t understand
Leaving only shame behind me
Like salt on sand
[Chorus]
Salt on sand
Was the sound of my voice
It was muted and gritty
Like I didn’t have a choice
When I sat in an armchair
With a phone in my hand
And I pulled away from love
Like a ship from land
[Verse]
And where was it I travelled
When I left you behind?
To the kind of love I thought
I’d waited all my life to find
To the arms of one who loved me
In a way that mattered more
Cause it could never come again
Because it never had before
[Verse]
If the love I felt was less a joy
And more of a command
If I felt myself evaporate
Each time he took my hand
Still I thought that there was nothing
I could not withstand
Even leaving you behind me
Like salt on sand
[Chorus]
Salt on sand
Was your face in my dreams
With a faint metallic glitter
Under bright sunbeams
And I woke with a regret
That I refused to understand—
I had pulled away from love
Like a ship from land
[Verse]
When the fairytale imploded
And I moved back home
And his presence in my mind
Began to fade like foam
You presented me an offer
On a winter day
The resumption of a friendship
I had pushed away
[Verse]
When our children play together
In a time to come
We will teach them what I didn’t understand
When I was young
To beware of love that pulls you
Like a ship away from land
Like the water from a harbor
Till you’re salt on sand
On sand
Credits
Ziz Adler

Ziz Adler

About “Salt on Sand” by Ziz Adler

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"Salt on Sand" appears on "Song to the Sun" in 2022.

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