[Verse 1] A shadow in the lagoon and a picture from the sky Something silver in the coral, and we let ourselves fly Eighty-nine years of static, every crackle rang true Every glint along the reef was a wing that made it through [Pre-Chorus] We framed our hope in a satellite square And whispered her name to the air [Break] [Chorus] The shine was sand Just coral dust that held the sun We wanted metal, wanted wings The shine was sand And still I love the one Who sent us looking for these things [Verse 2] They waded out at morning, seventeen hours ahead The tide had carried most of it, a Y of branch instead One steel tube for the archive, thirty inches of maybe And the radio keeps humming like she's calling out to me [Bridge] Dot and dash, the island answers no But the hoping doesn't know Adventure's worth it on its own [Break] [Chorus] The shine was sand Just coral dust that held the sun We wanted metal, wanted wings The shine was sand And still I love the one Who sent us looking for these things [Outro] The shine was sand... And still it shines
