Ashes to Ashes

[Verse 1] I carved her name upon a stone, Believing it would stay. But time erased each single line, And carried it away. I held the one I loved so much As though love conquered time. Now she’s dead, soon to be forgotten When I too will have reached the final line. [Chorus] Everything is passing. Everything will end. Every voice becomes a silence, Every road forgets its friends. We are less than borrowed moments, Less than echoes in the sky. Even the wind forgets our names As time hurries by. [Verse 2] No photograph remembers. No monument can keep. The children of our children Will never know we breathed. Soon, I too will have gone And no soul will be left to tell the world We ever journeyed on. [Bridge] Everything is passing. Nothing will remain. Even every memory Will soon disappear like rain. [Final Chorus] The oceans will fall silent. The stars will lose their fire. Time will swallow every memory, Every dream, every desire. When the universe grows quiet, No witness will be found. As though we never lived at all, The silence will abound. And yet … And yet, I loved you so, Arlette