Souvenirs

Here’s to the twilight
here’s to the memories
these are my souvenirs
my mental pictures of everything
Here’s to the late nights
here’s to the firelight
these are my souvenirs
my souvenirs

I close my eyes and go back in time
I can see you’re smiling, you’re so alive
we were so young, we had no fear
we were so young, we had no idea
that life was just happening
life was just happening

Here’s to your bright eyes
shining like fireflies
these are my souvenirs
the memory of a lifetime
we were wide-eyed with everything
everything around us
we were enlightened by everything
everything

So I close my eyes and go back in time
I can see you smiling, you’re so alive
I close my eyes and go back in time
you were just a child then, and so was I
we were so young, we had no fear
we were so young, we had no idea
that nothing lasts forever
nothing lasts forever
nothing lasts
nothing lasts
you and me together
were always now or never

Can you hear me?
can you hear me?
I close my eyes and go back in time
I can see you smiling, you’re so alive
I close my eyes and go back in time
you were wide-eyed, you were wide-eyed
we were so young, we had no fear
we were so young, we had just begun
a song we knew, but we never sang
it burned like fire inside our lungs
and life was just happening (and nothing lasts, nothing lasts forever)
and life was just happening (and nothing lasts, nothing lasts forever)
I wouldn’t trade it for anything
my souvenirs

Switchfoot Souvenirs

I love the lyrics that Jon Foreman creates. Its a way that I do not naturally think which makes the words intriguing. This song brings out my melancholy thinking but also brings forth resolve. I hear this song and it makes me think of listening to it, singing it softly when Tiffany and I are older when we have more years of life behind than ahead of us. Seeing and experiencing firsthand how life rushes by so quickly. But I love the last line "I wouldn't trade it for anything....my souvenirs. This then brings me back to right here and right now. Experiencing life here...now.... living for the moment I have been given. Living so that when Tiffany and I are older and greyer- I would not trade it...