In Your Eyes

That summer day you told me I was grounded I left the house and ran back through the yard I kept the stones you gave me in my pocket They remind me, remind me of Africa We sat all night with my guitar And whispered chords to the moonlight You showed me different stars across the sky And I was scared of the neighbor's dog When all the stars were shinin' In your eyes In your eyes For many years, I've tried to make it better But the air was cold, and you didn't know how to swim A thousand drops of water try to take us And they still haunt me, they haunt me in my dreams You saved our lives when I was four And whispered words in the sunlight You showed us different scars across your hand It was early in the morning When you kept the tears from falling From your eyes From your eyes I can see it in your eyes In your eyes You and I are 'bout to enter our last and only trial Feel the bittersweet creation, I'm grounded to the sky And I keep you close like a summer rose, my childhood in your eyes So climb with me back to the roof and show me different stars All the songs you have forgotten are about to come alive When the old becomes the new, I save them deep within my heart All the endless themes like fallen trees are saying their goodbyes And I need you by my side Still I need you by my side You remember when you told us 'bout the day you lost your hand The reason you stopped playing, you passed the dream onto your child And now I'm playing for you, I can see again the past In your eyes In your eyes In your eyes