Name: Sandcastles
Duration: P00H02M07S
Description: A lesson in life from a 4 year old. We sat on a beach making sandcastles and as the tide came in and washed Ellie's hard work away, she simply picked herself up, took her bucket and spade, moved to another part of the beach and started building again. Sometimes, when life treats us less than well, we have to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down and start again

Sandcastles

from Love Songs. A benefit for Punks Against Domestic Abuse by Chris Butler

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A lesson in life from a 4 year old. We sat on a beach making sandcastles and as the tide came in and washed Ellie's hard work away, she simply picked herself up, took her bucket and spade, moved to another part of the beach and started building again. Sometimes, when life treats us less than well, we have to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down and start again

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Sandcastles

Me and Ellie built our castles
We tapped our buckets with our spades
We revealed our sand creations
with beaming smiles at what we'd made

Chorus:
But nothing lasts forever
It's not an if but a when?
When the sea it washes over
We have to start and build again

With an unquestionable resilience
Undefeated to the end
Ellie's undeterred and building
She starts the process once again

Ch.

As I watch the castles crumble
and eroded by the sea
Ellie takes her spade and bucket
and she says 'Grandpa, follow me'

Ch.

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from Love Songs. A benefit for Punks Against Domestic Abuse, released September 25, 2018
(C) Chris Butler

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Chris Butler UK

Having taken up the rallying cry from the punk movement to pick up a guitar and make a noise - Chris did just that. He ran with the idea and hasn't stopped running since. Where he's going is anyone's guess for this singer songwriter...

Previous to this recent release, Chris’s CD If Not Now, When? was released on Feline Classics Records and is available from www.etsy.com/shop/chrisbutlersongs ... more

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