Pondering Eternity (Study 3)
Grains of Sand explores time through motion rather than answers. Built on a playful Afro-jazz groove with selective choral textures, the song stays light on its feet while carrying something vast. One voice becomes many, then returns again. Nothing rushes. Nothing resolves. The movement continues. The imagery is simple: sand passing through a hand. The meaning is not explained. This is a song about scale, persistence, and what it feels like to exist inside something larger than we can name — without needing to define it.
Video direction & editing: John Gerstner
Music: “Grains of Sand”
Written by John Gerstner
Created with Suno AI
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▶ Lyrics (click to view)
Verse 1
I am a grain of sand
I have been here a long time
I don’t hurry
I don’t arrive
I stay where I am
While everything shifts
Verse 2
I was once something larger
Stone, pressure, heat
I don’t remember the breaking
Only the form I became
If you look closely
I am not smooth
Still rough on the edges
But shaped by it
Chorus
Grains of sand
Infinite and small
Filling the spaces
Between what stands and falls
Grains of sand
Through every hourglass
Passing through
Something vast
Verse 3
I have watched storms gather
And leave nothing behind
I have watched mountains lower
Without a sound
The waves keep coming
I keep shifting
No beginning
No end
Verse 4
I am desert
I am shoreline
I am glass and dust
I am held
I am scattered
I do not fight the currents
I remain
What I am
Chorus
Grains of sand
Infinite and small
Neither first
Nor last at all
Grains of sand
Passing through
What holds
And what lets go
Outro
Still here
Still turning
Still beneath
What takes its time