Mother, you're trying your heart out But he's slipping though your grasp Into the long green grass That will cover us Just be there, just be there, just be there You're not supposed To know what to do when Your best friend forgets you Or how to do this at all When an empire falls But beauty remains There are wild flowers in the cracks And sometimes it rains And the past comes flooding back And you can be sure That though those glory days are gone Beauty remains in even a half remembered dawn And I'm shocked by the future How little I know will be And the stories you used to tell No longer comfort me What an incredible human journey What an incredible human journey What an incredible What an incredible What an incredible What an incredible What an incredible What an incredible Winds somewhere safe to sea