Story Behind The Song

This is a tough topic to sing about, but I felt compelled to write this song because of all of the sudden, unexplained passings we are seeing and all the senseless killing and attacks going on in the streets of America and the world. What happened to our goals of morality, settings spiritual growth, the desire to care for people, the directive to treat our neighbors the way we would like to be treated or BETTER? I see ambulances these days with their lights on and no sirens and driving slowly away. We all know what that means. But, there is hope if we fight to grasp it and hold onto it. If we lose HOPE, we have lost our quests.

Lyrics

"The Sands Of Time" (2023)
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Music and Lyric by Chet Nichols (ASCAP)
Copyright 2017/2020/2023 by Chester Nichols, Jr (ASCAP) & Magic Garage Music : Publisher (ASCAP)
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We never said goodbye
And it's haunting me
Since I heard the news
That dropped me to my knees
No goodbye
What a way for love to end
When the spark of sudden tragedy
Mixed ashes with the wind

Where is it we to go
When it's time that we're called home?
And how am I to know
We'll meet again and not let go?
Will we be like flames
That merged light our way
To stroll the breathing shorelines
And dance above the waves?
But how am I to keep my faith
When a heart that once was mine
Waits beyond the hills we climbed
Across the sands of time?

Where every grain of sand
Can hold a memory
Of every prayer we prayed
Oh, and every dream we dreamed?
Where's the bridge to cross
That'll take me further home
Closer to the arms
That I yearn to hold?

Just like drifting clouds
We split and fade away
Till autumn winds draw us back
To squeeze us tight and make us rain
And when the harvest bells fill the air
And ring out one last time
That's when our hearts combine
That's when our hearts combine
When your hand's holding mine
And we cross the sands of time
And we cross the sands of time
And we cross the sands of time

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