Hourglass 歌词

Nothing is forever and good things never last And learning in the future is based on lessons from the past I thought we were gold in the fire And we could not be burned 'Till you lost your desire and I melted to learn I thought I could keep you from changing shape But two people cannot believe on one man's faith And your love it was an hourglass What I thought I'd found was too good to last And your love it was a promise made But your lock and key held a broken chain And now when I see you I just don't understand And all I needed from you then Has now become all the time on my hands It was torture to see it comin' as we reached the end of days The sands of time were fallin' from a premature heart decay And as I stood in falsehood, in our final hour I prayed for the roots of a redwood But you withered like a flower And when you finally spoke the words that broke my heart I couldn't blame you too much 'cause I knew from the start