Shells Of Yesterday by Gloria Buono-Daly (C) 2025

(INTRO OPTIONAL)
Mmmmm… 
Drifted from deep… 
Tumbled by tide… 
Still they wait… where beauty… hides...

(Verse 1)

Sleeping deep in ocean’s hold

In silent dark where secrets unfold.

Tossed and turned by time and tide

They surface when waves subside

Nature’s imperfect art… perfect form…

Sculpted by the quiet storm……

(Verse 2)

Marked by dents and chips of time..

Eroded edges, weathered lines..

Yet still they hold their perfect form..

Nature’s art through every storm…

Shells of yesterday…

Oooo…

(Pre-Chorus 1)

Their voices silent, yet somehow they speak—

In stillness, they shine, in softness, they’re seen...

(Chorus 1)

Shells of yesterday… they don’t fly, they shine…

Washed up by time, still telling their line…

Once part of the sea, now stories they bind—

Shells of yesterday… why they’re sublime……

(Verse 3)

Each one holds a story told

Of ancient depths and tempests bold

Some are fractured, weathered, worn

Yet beauty lies where edges torn

Some big and perfect, some broken and small

Once so refined, now treasured by all

Coins of the sea, washed up with grace

Adorned with patience in every trace

(Pre-Chorus 2)

No wings to carry, no voice to cry out…

Still, they are heard… in wonder, no doubt…..

(Chorus 2)

Shells of yesterday… they don’t fly, they shine…

Carried by currents… shaped over time…

Still as the sky, they speak in design—

Shells of yesterday…… why they’re sublime…

(Bridge)

They wait, they stay, through years of sand

Till lifted gently by a searching hand

From ocean’s roar to windows bright

They remind us to notice the quiet light…

(Final Chorus)

Shells of yesterday… they don’t fly… they shine…

With stories of deep sea and sun intertwined

Beauty that waits, patient and kind—

Shells of yesterday… why they’re sublime…

Ooooo…Ooooo…

(Outro– Full orchestration, crescendo, emotional peak, vocal layers)

I once brushed scenes in colors bold,

On shells like canvas, smooth and old.

Still they remind me, in silence they store—

Heart of the ocean… shells of yesterday ...on the shore…

Ooooo…Mmmmm…

(Instrumental fade out)

Heart of the ocean…Shells of yesterday…

Ooooo…Mmmmm…

*(END OF SONG)*