Building in the Sand

My brothers, my sisters, I could see us playing there Smaller faces, smaller hands, smaller worries, playing in the sand Elaborate castles and bridges and roads--they'd disappear At the end of the day, but we'd build them anyways All our lives we've been building in the sand All our lives, and we didn't understand All our lives we've been building in the sand All our lives we've been building in the sand After that summer we moved away At the new house there was no sandbox to play in And as one by one we graduated and moved out I could swear it felt just like the sand was in my hands All our lives we've been building in the sand All our lives, and we didn't understand All our lives we've been building in the sand All our lives we've been building in the sand Some of married, had kids, and their own box of sand We got jobs and houses and cars and hobbies And phones that never rang as much as our memories And we let the years slip through our hands like sand All our lives we've been building in the sand All our lives, and we didn't understand All our lives we've been building in the sand All our lives we've been building in the sand In the morning mirror, all some of us see is gray But some of us see nothing anymore After the last of us is gone, what will they say of us That we spent our lives building in the sand All our lives we've been building in the sand All our lives, and we didn't understand All our lives we've been building in the sand All our lives we've been building in the sand