When you were small as the sound of a footfall in the sand and the sun that you saw was the first sun of all was a golden fruit fallen in the palm of your hand
	the farthest you'd walk was the reach of my call and every path brought you at last to the warmth of my arms

From there, any danger adventure, any stranger a friend to be named wherever you turned was a lesson to learn a word to be tasted, a world to be tamed
	and I was by your side with every embrace I made you a place in my arms

An ocean of lives spills around you its waves call again and again even as you grow higher so grows your desire to dive in those waters, and swim out a man
	I too swim this tide the current is strong, but it carries you along in my arms

Everyone knows that the future of the rose is to bloom but who's to say it's the sun, or if rain is the one will deepen its color and sweeten its perfume?
	Who, who, who...? Who are you...?

Now, how many candles will measure the sands of your years? And how many treasures lined up on your shelves will make way for new loves, their flowers, their tears?
	The world goes 'round and 'round the world you go wherever you land you'll always be home in my arms