Lyrics Life Runs Out Like Sand - Bill Nelson

Life Runs Out Like Sand

In this ever changing world
In these times
These days of challenge
As my systems begin to fail
I hear voices
Beyond the veil …
Love decays
Under our dying star
Strange how time delays
The knowing who we are …
As the years slip through my hand
My life
Runs out
Like Sand …
I will play a poison lullaby
In fields of gravity
Under a falling sky …
As the day
Slow-fades away
Warning shadows
Crawl across my walls of grey …
Sweetness drips
From the exquisite corpse
Sleeping sickness
Grips at every ghost who walks
As the years slip through my hand
My Life
Runs Out
Like Sand