laid my pennies by the lake hoping the water could buy me fate for all of my mistakes that i have made laid out memories by the lake hoping that they could sail away away from my mind there s a piece of you left behind i still see you there out in the lake right in the middle where its all faint the less i care the more that youll fade i still see you there out in the lake laid a letter by the lake with all the worlds i want to say and i know theyll be no reply but id still want you to know why youre sinking down like a pebble in the lake like the ghosts of my past that s faded away and now im left with nothing but a memory 