Cricket in a Jar

Catch the moment, the moment has passed
 This is a law of loveliness: we love what never lasts
 Try and hold it; it slips right through
 Before you know, the garden's grown, there's nothing left to do
 But I need more than a memory to take me back in time
 To the day of your delivery, the quivering and cry
 To catch and hold you
 Catch the moment, the moment has passed
 This is a law of loveliness: we love what never lasts
 Why can't we hold it like a cricket in a jar
 And let it sing with tiny wings of laughter in the yard
 As the ice is fading from the glassy tangled trees
 I see your snowy footprints, and I wish that they could be
 Fixed and frozen
 Catch the moment, the moment has passed
 This is a law of loveliness: we love what never lasts
 Let it go now, it's all I can do
 Watch them fly like cord free-cut into the blue