Was Your Father a Thief?

Are those stars in your brown eyes because they're shining much too bright?
 But they're bound to fall or burn out in time
 You're no different except, I guess, the fact that you're the best
 Or, at least that's how I've got you memorized
 I remember walking to the shore arm in arm
 You couldn't swim, you were content to just hold on
 Waking up with you in the sand
 That Florida Sun rising between our hands
 I'm begging you not to let that go
 Please don't let it go
 And I'd love to come back home, but I know that you'd have gone
 And taken all that shit I been working for
 All those gifts, all those times
 All the laughter and the rhymes
 Do you really think you could ask for more?
 I remember walking to the shore arm in arm
 You couldn't swim, you were content to just hold on
 Waking up with you in the sand
 That Florida Sun rising between our hands
 I'm begging you not to let that go
 Please don't let it go
 I could follow some other dream, deny myself, and move up stream
 But the only vessel's been chartered long ago
 I'm afraid I'd let it slip, spit riptide and sink the ship
 So the strongest love's the one that's left untold
 I remember walking to the shore arm in arm
 You couldn't swim, you were content to just hold on
 Waking up with you in the sand
 That Florida Sun rising between our hands
 I'm begging you not to let that go
 Please don't let it go
 You were content to just hold on, so please don't let it go