Abstract, Kayo - Sand lyrics

All these grains of sand
Keep slipping through our hands
'Cause time wait's for no man
We're all just grains of sand

We're all sands
We're all sands
We're all sands
We're all sands

Humans quest to be infinite
Used to write it on walls
Used to write it with charcoal and
Paint the legends for all
Tell our stories through symbols
Chisel it deep in the rock
Been doing it since we were
Barely able to talk
Clothe our heroes in gold who
Left our enemies slain
Made legends larger than life so
We'd remember the names
Paint the battles of old with
A quill on a page
Just to tell the hero's story
In whatever the age
Monuments constructed by thousands all
For a king
Statues made to honor the scholars
For how they think
Churches been erected as a testament to faith
Paint been laid to canvas
To commemorate who overcame
We all tryna leave something
That's bigger than us
Something so big nobody can touch
Something so real they commemorate us
Something that lives on after life leaves us
'cause

All these grains of sand
Keep slipping through our hands
'Cause time wait's for no man
We're all just grains of sand

We're all sands
We're all sands
We're all sands
We're all sands

Mortality a scary thing to think about
Look to science
Look to God with reliance till
The lights go out
Not sure how it started
How could we know how it ends?
Are there levels to reality, and if so
Does it bend?
Are there ways to see the next
From which our current one suspends?
Or are we just as finite as
The ink in my pen?
Live our lives till it's drained
Hope our stories live again
Commemorate our loved ones
Leave our legacy to friends
Might be that uncertainty that makes
Us want to live
The most human act of questioning
The fact we question it
The fact we get to observe that
We observe is a trip
A mirror in a mirror wondering
What a mirror is
Time provides an urgency to
All that does exist
Best we use it wisely 'cause
The promised might be myth
And what we leave behind might
Be draped in immortality
Centuries from now living here within an MP3

All these grains of sand
Keep slipping through our hands
'Cause time wait's for no man
We're all just grains of sand

We're all sands
We're all sands
We're all sands
We're all sands