Hollow Water (version 2)

Verse

Gravel driveway holds three rain prints still

Bicycle leans against the cedar fence

Grandmother's rocking chair creaks at will

Empty since last winter, that was all

Window pane reflects a single drop of dew

Birds fall silent one by one before night

A paper boat I built with two sticks true

Floats half gone where the pond goes deep

Pre-Chorus

Nothing here is lost, only letting go

The river holds what it doesn't let through yet

Chorus

Keep on floating down this quiet water line

Where the evening light bends silver into gold

Something inside me learns to leave behind

Keep on floating till I'm hollow full of old

Verse

Rainfall slows, collects a film of amber light

Rust on an old gate still rings in morning heat

Squirrel's nest by the oak tree starts to lose its might

Mm— nothing here is moving fast as feet

I toss my paper boat onto the pond at last

Watch it drift where the water lilies sway

The sky turns blue then gold then gray at last

Nothing left behind but yesterday

Pre-Chorus

Nothing here is lost, only letting go

The river holds what it doesn't let through yet

Chorus

Keep on floating down this quiet water line

Where the evening light bends silver into gold

Something inside me learns to leave behind

Keep on floating till I'm hollow full of old

Bridge

No waves to ride, just slow reflection of blue

The world moves soft where my grandfather used to pray

Nothing here is mine to hold, but this much truth —

I was never made for keeping everything that's stayed

Verse

Stars start one by one between the trees

Porch swing creaks a little less with the wind's sigh

Fireflies blink like tiny lanterns at ease

Every ending leaves a shape it can't define

A boat I thought would sink turns out to hold air

The current carries everything into something new

And though my hands go empty, nothing is gone there

Something else has learned what holding truly means too

Pre-Chorus

Nothing here is lost, only letting go

The river holds what it doesn't let through yet

Chorus

Keep on floating down this quiet water line

Where the evening light bends silver into gold

Something inside me learns to leave behind

Keep on floating till I'm hollow full of old

Outro

Hollow water, empty hands still hold a sound

The letting go has learned how to carry what's found