Catch the moment, the moment has passed This is a law of loveliness: we love what never lasts Try and hold it; it slips right through Before you know, the garden's grown, there's nothing left to do But I need more than a memory to take me back in time To the day of your delivery, the quivering and cry To catch and hold you Catch the moment, the moment has passed This is a law of loveliness: we love what never lasts Why can't we hold it like a cricket in a jar And let it sing with tiny wings of laughter in the yard As the ice is fading from the glassy tangled trees I see your snowy footprints, and I wish that they could be Fixed and frozen Catch the moment, the moment has passed This is a law of loveliness: we love what never lasts Let it go now, it's all I can do Watch them fly like cord free-cut into the blue