I like to say, I've made good use of my time while you've been away.
And it's true,
I've been in my piano everyday
thinking of you.

They talk around, I hear them whisper,
It's the funniest thing really they think you're gone forever
I know the truth, It's just getting hard to believe it.
When they all tell me it's over
even the stars are aligned and I,

I follow the signs so clearly,
and still I've fallen
the quicksand's pulling me down.
I follow the signs so clearly,
and still they catch me
the quicksand's pulling me down.

I'm not the same,
I can't sleep nights and now i'm calling your name when I do.
and yet without you, they say I get along better, better, better.
When they all tell me It's over
I'll damn the gods until the stars are aligned and I,

I follow the signs so clearly,
and still I've fallen
the quicksand's pulling me down.
I follow the signs so clearly,
and still they catch me
the quicksand's pulling me down.

Look at my life, look at my face,
can't you see my heart bleeding down my sleeve,
you're holding my hand and holding my heart
but I just want to feel your breath inside me so I can breath.
Somewhere in the distance I catch a spark of grace
I hope it's something that makes me feel like i'm alive.

It's never to soon,
it's never to late,
so I start screaming out
I see your face
I see your hand reaching down and I yell to you and I say,

I follow the signs to clearly,
and still I've fallen
the quicksand's pulling me down.
I follow the signs so clearly,
and still they caught me
the quicksand's pulling me down.

I follow the signs so clearly,
and still I've fallen
the quicksand's pulling me down.
I know you can feel me rising,
And I'm on fire
if you keep on pulling me up.

Look at my life, and look at my face,
look where I've come to get to this place with you.
Being here to sit and lay at your feet and rest in your arms
And listen to your heart beat.

(ohhh...)


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Quicksand Lyrics as written by Bethany Joy Stacy Jones

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    The narrator has lost someone and everyone is tell her to just give up hope. She tries to hold on to her hope and she manages for awhile, but she starts to feel like she's losing that hope and she doesn't want to lose it.

    taylorjoieon March 06, 2010   Link

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