Shell And Shore

I got out of my bed

I wrote a letter down

Was missing several words

But I could hear their sound

I didn't know who I

Would send the letter to

But their upon my step

Strange man with eyes of blue

I went back to my desk

I wrote six letters more

Stories about a shell

Washed upon a shore

And when it opens up

Will you be there

Cause when it opens up

From it's armor it's scared

Will you be there

I thought about the way

He stood so patient with

My fightin' trembling hands

My traps and all my tricks

But then it bubbled up

The endless well of doubt

He'd see all I had done

Figure the whole thing out

And when it opens up

Will you be there

Cause when it opens up

From it's armor it's scared

Will you be there

And all the times it's bled and all the times it's lied

The ways that it's been led and all the times it's tried To get on without love and keep killing time Meanwhile this precious heart was shrivelling up inside

I write a letter down

I'm missing several words

But if you hear their sound

Some way I've never heard

I'll seal it with my hands

I'll press it to your heart

It's more than I can stand

But maybe that's a start

And when it opens up

Will you be there

Cause when it opens up

From it's armor it's scared

Will you be there