Shell Lyrics - Heartleap - Vashti Bunyan

In the telling of your story 

There is so much that's lost 

There's an ocean in between 

The seen and unseen 

That's as deep as the loss was 

To you so young 

I just see a shell 

Can't really get the picture 

I've nothing to compare 

Can't say I understand 

Have no hand to lend 

You had more than your fair share 

For one so young 

But you do it all so well 

I fold things just like my mother 

Into two then into three 

I don't know why I do 

But then I think of you 

And what it takes to be free 

From all you've learned 

But you know it all too well 

In the telling of your story 

You say there's so much more 

Then you curl away from me 

To some deeper sea 

And I'm here on the foreshore 

Till your return 

I just see a shell