wash over me

talkin' messes up a good sunset
so i shut my mouth
and stared out at the waves and wondered
what a creative day we're having
how the waves made faces
and the tides covered our tracks

oh Lord, can i ask you a question
can you really wash away the me i left behind?

if so, i'll let you wash over me
cause i know you spoke the sun
and i know you sewed the mountaintops
i know you know how this book's ending
and i'll let you wash over me
cause i know you spoke the wind
i know you don't rewrite the past
but can you rewrite my heart
wash over me
wash over me

i must have chased a thousand sunsets
as i rode my songs to glory
just dying to be heard
but now my heart seems to be aging
and i see that being someone
is nothing without you

Lord, can i ask you a question
can you take a broken man and use the song he sings?

if so, i'll let you wash over me
cause i know you spoke the sun
and i know you sewed the mountaintops
and i know you know how this book's ending
and i'll let you wash over me
cause i know you wrote the wind
i know you don't rewrite the past
but can you rewrite my heart
wash over me
wash over me

well life's too short to cry over spilled sunsets
so i'll sit here on the shoreline and watch
as my old self rolls away, rolls away
with the tide

and let you wash over me
cause i know you spoke the sun
and i know you sewed those mountaintops together
i know you know how this book's ending
and i'll let you wash over me
cause i know you wrote the wind
and i know you don't rewrite the past
but can you rewrite my heart
wash over me
wash over me

can you wash over me?

-matt neely