Artifact #1

[Verse 1]
What would it take to gain acceptance
To the grounds behind your eyes?
You know I'm open to suggestion
The one you made we never tried

[Chorus]
You let it slip right out from under
Your breath and it rolled around my head
Oh, it was nothing I'd consider
I knew it had to happen then

[Verse 2]
Stood on the banks of the Potomac
We watched the water rushing by
You said we should live in the moment
But then I'd miss you all the time

[Chorus]
And I know no one will believe me
But I don't want a second chance
To be an object of desire
If that means slipping through your hands

[Bridge]
If I had tried to make you mine
You would have walked away
Life can't compete with memories
They never have to change

[Verse 3]
This world is full of missing persons
All of these unsolved mysteries
If someone says they know for certain
They're selling something, certainly

[Chorus]
So when I set myself to wonder
On all the questions that remain
The only one that even matters
Is when I'll see your face again

[Outro]
I keep looking back for artifacts
To prove that you were here
The sound that's been, keeps echoing
It never disappears