Houston Davis Jones - A Single Grain of Sand lyrics

When you were just a girl the stars would fall into your hands The universe and galaxies would yield at your command From gra**y fields and fallen leaves to ocean shores and glens A single grain of sand could hold the wonders of the world To you, to you With time your hair grew to the ground and foxes, mice, and birds Became your closest friends without the need for clocks and words The earth it was your playground and the things of it your toys So limitless seemed all of life and with it all it's joys But people saw you smiling And all happiness sincere Can never be rewarded For it brings most people tears So they took you and they taught you How to read and write and learn And the weight of all man's knowledge held you down with it's concerns Still through the days of books and bags a shining light still glowed In every blade of gra** that through the hard cement did show And when no one was looking and a spare hour arose You'd climb the highest hill and watch the daylight curtain close Then as you learned to live the lie and learned to love the news The magic of your childhood seemed worthwhile to lose What good can come from fantasy says the present to the past It only puts aside what will already too soon pa** So if you're feeling lonely in this world so densely packed Remember how you used to live if you can still think back To gra**y fields and fallen leaves and ocean shores and glens When a single grain of sand still held the wonders of the world To you, to you