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Scripture in the Sand.

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Scripture in the Sand. was released on June 3, 2022 by Nettwerk Music Group as a part of the album Acre of Salt.

Song Details

AlbumAcre of Salt.

Release DateJune 3, 2022

LabelNettwerk Music Group

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Ben Zaidi

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Benjamin Gibreel Blumstein

Benjamin Gibreel Blumstein

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Tony Berg

Producer

Will Maclellan

Mixing Engineer

Patricia Sullivan

Patricia Sullivan

Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

We stopped and bought some Mad Dog off the highway near Savannah

And I had never been so drunk before

Seven naked bodies that the moonlight painted silver

Skin that shone like surf along the shore

And I was on the verge of something, wild and riled and reeling

We thought ourselves the first, the pioneers of every feeling

The waves would rise and the laughter lines were fading from my hands

Like scripture in the sand

[Verse 2]

Another Boston spring, another pilgrimage to Florida

I left all my sober thoughts at home

You threw up in a wine glass at that party in Manhattan

We never knew when it was time to go

And whatever happened to whatever happens?

The tidal wave came fast and I was a fist of paper napkins

Standing over something I could scarcely understand

Scripture in the sand

[Verse 3]

You said it was my birthday when you got your diagnosis

So you made up some reason not to call

February second, when I got you on the phone again

I watched my breath while you explained it all

And Tampa's sixteen hours but I'm nowhere if not there

And we drove to the beach the day the nurse cut off your hair

And I thought maybe things are holier the less they can withstand

Like scripture in the sand

[Verse 4]

The day my youth ran out, I was stirring pills in applesauce

Coming up with questions for the nurse

It's not as if I understand what it means to lose yourself

But I can hold the tissues to the hurt

I'm always back in Florida for some new God-damned reason

The place that cut you loose shouldn't be the place that leaves you bleeding

But high tide always scatters all the lives that we have planned

They're scripture in the sand

[Verse 5]

A slice of sky reflected in the dog bowl at the drug store

I would also like to drink the sun

It's hard to ask for what you want, to stand on that desire

And wait there for a train that might not come

And after dark, I painted your initials on the overpass

But it got demolished, anybody could have told you that

And what's left of our lives, what mark is left upon the land?

We're scripture in the sand

[Verse 6]

I'm a textbook picture of the need to make a meaning

Out of every bird that flies away

Nostalgia's more reflection of the present then the past, I guess

I just felt like feeling like shit today

But I wanna go down like one of your old vinyl records

So round that you can't see it turn and you don't know it's ending

So close that till it's gone you barely knew that it began

Like scripture in the sand

Written by: Benjamin Gibreel Blumstein

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