Life Surprises

Life surprises us with love
Life surprises us with pain
Life surprises us with fate
Until it’s too late 

Looking past the sea
To the city beyond
Looking past the fog to the sea
We think we know what is is to be

We stand on the shore of
The beginning messages
From the past in bottles
In the sand and the sea

We think we know what is
At hand and what is to be
Until suddenly- life surprises
Us all eventually with love or tragedy 

Under a stone on a hill
She rests, she’s very still
Buried in eventide long
Gone on this side, her death
Was a surprise when she was young

By the sea, twilight coming
On he watches the sunset
But not over any regret
As he thought for his lover
Stands by his side- his love
Was a surprise when he was old