Souvenir Debris Lyrics

A ship wrecked off the coast of California, souvenir debris

A tattered suit clad body floated through the wreckage next to me

He tossed and swayed through surging tide

Perhaps alive, but glassy eyed

With desperation shouting to the sea

I'll love you til my dying day

I'll sing your name at Heaven's Gate

Our melody will never fade

We're singing different tunes for now

I tried my best to save the drowning sailor sinking through the waves

My outstretched soggy fingers tried to reach him, some people can't be saved

And as I fought to stay afloat I found the dead man's dogeared note

As if he were still shouting from the grave

I'll love you til my dying day

I'll sing your name at Heaven's Gate

Our melody will never fade

We're singing different tunes for now

In four years since that shipwreck I've read that letter every single day

An ink stained monument to everything two lovers couldn't say

Divided by an ocean blue, but sailing toward a rendezvous

Forever lonely lovesick castaways

I'll love you til my dying day

I'll sing your name at Heaven's Gate

Our melody will never fade

We're singing different tunes for now