I know the channel so well It feels so smooth and warm to the touch When I feel it in my mind Like an old pebble in my pocket Like that fossil from Bracklesham Bay I found in my pocket a year later All smooth and familiar, recovered Once treasured and found once again Old friend, like a stone in my pocket Unlock it The memories that rocket right out when I touch it So smooth to the fingers So smooth like a bone This small stone, turn it 'round and around Still some sand from the beach Where we found it, that summer When we were alone You found it, you couldn't believe it Just lying there crying to be found And your little white fingers reached out just to feel it When you picked it up, said to me, "Mommy, let's take it home" So smooth like a bone This little grey stone With the fins of a fossil stamped into its skin An echo, a memory, a cry to go home And you cried, you cried to go home Out on the sand Holding hands and warm from the sun At the edge of the land Where the waves dissolve into ground Come and look at what I've found I nearly missed it in the glimmer of the sea A pebble on the beach as smooth and warm by memory As the waves that carve the shape of you and me When I think of that day I can feel the warmth from the sun And your hand in my hand Even though that day is long gone Here's that pebble that we found I thought it lost, but in the twinkle of an eye Time goes flying by and in that well-worn memory I feel the waves that carve the shape of you and me Out on the sand With your tiny hand held in mine The widest horizon's in your eyes Come and show me what we found You nearly missed it in the glimmer of the sea Pebble on the beach As smooth and warm as memory Like that pebble on the beach We all are carried out to sea On the waves that carve the shape of you and me