From the recording Little Tiny Secrets
Words & music by BettySoo, (c) 2007 BettySoo/Sweet Papaya Music, BMI. BettySoo: vocals, acoustic guitar. Stephen Doster: electric guitar. Todd Wilson: keys. Kristine Shafer: cello. Drew Shafer: violin. Dave Terry: drums, double bass.
Lyrics
This is a song about floating disaster
A mother without her child
The memory of little fingers
Clutching to someone familiar left behind
This is a song about lives unremembered
When the ocean swallowed
Everyone who knew the faces
Unnumbered graces
My last breath crowded by water
Rushing in before I can say what I’d say
That you are my very life
That I’d love you for life
If I could stay
This is a song about houses drowning
And that picture of you that got washed away
I wish I could remember all the old days
And the way that you smiled at me
From the frame
This is a song about how I wish
Living was easy as a choice
Make the right decision, put the blade aside
Wake up in the morning for one more day
My last breath crowded by water
Rushing in before I can say what I’d say
That you are my very life
That I’d love you for life
If I could stay