[verse #1]
   Houses where we used to live
   Cities where we must've been
   Hundreds of memories, thousands of memories, that I still can't picture myself in
   Cities built on coral reef
   Calendars carved in bas relief
   Hundreds of days, thousands of years
   Frozen in single moments
[pre-chorus]
   Good news, well, the past can be erased
   Given the earth's relentlessly shifting face
   What in the world have we been working for
   When all we have to do is wait some more?
[chorus]
   You'd never have known there was ocean between us once
[verse #2]
   Strip malls now instead of woods
   Bare lots where the school stood
   It all looks different, all smells different,
   Can't even recognize it
   Render all my memories false
   Hollower than sheet rock walls
   Grind them to dust and blow them away and
   No one would ever notice
 
[pre-chorus]
   Good news, well, the past can be erased
   Given the earth's relentlessly shifting face
   What in the world have we been working for
   When all we have to do is wait some more?
[chorus]
   You'd never have known there was ocean between us once