Slippery Pearls

vamp: { / / / / }{ / / / / }{ / / / / }{ / / / / } What you hold back from the minute, the minute will lack If you don't claim it from the hour then the hour takes it back All our wants will pass quickly, what remains is our need And mama don't make no medicine that'll cure that disease Chorus: Nothing is certain here in this world You drop all your treasures just like slippery pearls Oh, it's hard to find a handle on the things that you see Cause they slide right through your fingers just like slippery pearls VAMP What you don't lock up inside your heart the world will consume It might slip right down the throat of greed Or through the floorboards in your room There's two thieves named pain and pleasure and neither one is true You ransom your flesh to save your bones Then they come and take those too CHORUS VAMP They don't make a map to guide you through the badlands of the soul You could lose yourself to blind conceit or to the hunger for control Try to guard it all from the elements and it's still gonna fall apart Cause the world outside don't pose no threat Like the darkness in our hearts CHORUS repeat CHORUS ad lib and fade