Handful of Water Lyrics

You're like a handful of water

Impossible to grasp

An unrelenting daughter

Who always shows up last

But I can't ignore you

At least not for long

You're a handful of water

And I'm trying to hold on

To you

Don't you want me to?

This whole life for me's been something of a desert (A desert)

I'm always dry

Hate to see you slipping through my fingers (These broken fingers)

I wonder why

Do I keep going on?

Don't you know that you're the one that I've been aching for?

All these years (All these years)

By the time you come around

I'm dying on the ground

Just a foot from death's black door (Dying on the ground)

I'm a child who cannot go without a wound

So do your worst, like you always do

They say absence makes a heart grow fonder

Well isn't that the truth? (The truth, the truth, the truth)

You're like a handful of water

Impossible to grasp

An unrelenting daughter

Who always shows up last

But I can't ignore you

At least not for long

You're a handful of water

And I'm trying to hold on

To you

Don't you want me to?

When I feel you crashing over me

And secretly, we are (We are)

I'll forget your cruelty

And cease to be

A while

I'd set it all aside

Put away my life

You're like a handful of water

Impossible to grasp

An unrelenting daughter

Who always shows up last

But I can't ignore you

At least not for long

You're a handful of water

And I'm trying to hold on