Pennies for Your Thoughts

Pennies for Your Thoughts - Irish All-Stars

When you're standin' by the ocean

And you're lookin' to the west

Like an old man once told me

There's a feelin' that you get

When that feelin' is of sorrow

And of love and laughter dies

I'll play seashells to your ears and

Put pennies on your eyes

Now with those seashells you will hear

All the tears of the world

With those pennies you will find

Just what life's really worth

When I'm standin' on this headland

And my spirit's on the sea

Through the deep blue velvet sky

A star burns out for me

But seashells and pennies are all I can give

You can't live a life that's already lived

Well the seashells still sound the same

When the pennies roll down the drain

And the one that you've loved

Is dyin' and driftin' away

And the fire that drives you

Has gone out this day

When your feelin' is of sorrow

Or love and laughter dies

I'll play seashells to your ears and

Put pennies on your eyes

But seashells and pennies are all I can give

You can't live a life that's already lived

But seashells all sound the same

When the pennies roll down the drain

And the one that you've

Loved is dyin' and driftin' away

And the fire that drives you has gone out this day