"Clair De Lune" lyrics

Moonlight on water
Ripples never still
Catch it if you can
But it slips, it spills

Beauty doesn't stay
Beauty doesn't wait
Just a moment's glow
Then it fades away

Clair de lune, clair de lune
Light that never holds
Clair de lune, clair de lune
Slipping through my soul

Silver on the waves
Gone before I know
Trying to hold moonlight
But it has to flow

Nothing lasts forever
Nothing stays the same
Just this brief reflection
Calling out my name

Clair de lune, clair de lune
Can't keep what I see
Clair de lune, clair de lune
Beauty setting free

Let it go, let it shimmer
Let it fade to black
Moonlight doesn't linger
Never coming back

Clair de lune, clair de lune
Gone but still I feel
Clair de lune, clair de lune
What was never real