I'll be dreaming of our little sandcastle lifeĬause our little sandcastle is all we can keep Fix Me Up I didn't have enough time to make it as beautiful as you Our little sandcastle will probably never existīut I like to dream and build our lives in itĪnd I'm sorry for never finishing our room I'll show you why I chose you and why you are mineĬause your ears are like the shells I found When we finally finish the north and south We should build a few more rooms for our friends and guests Well the east wing is done and now for the west Oh, why does this place have to be so far? We can run around playing tag in the yard In our little sandcastle we’ll have a swimming poolĪ great big tower and maybe a chicken coop We'll build our little sandcastle in a far-off landĪnd your tears are scared of leaving your eyesĬause our little sandcastle is all we can keep
Well, I'll collect some shells and you move the sand If it's a rainy day, we can just drive awayīut it's sunny outside so we might as well stay Together I helped him put it to a melody and created a duet with harmonies that echo this shared bittersweetness” – Sammy Brown He casually showed me this song he had scribbled down in his notebook one day and I just remember feeling so impressed by how perfectly he painted this wistful story about promises you can’t keep but make anyway to keep a dream alive. “The Sandcastles lyrics are all Zach, and he wrote them about Amy and the life they imagined together but would never have. Read more: Behind the scenes of the Zach Sobiech movie, “Clouds” Sandcastles Now it's over, there's nothing left for us to doīesides acknowledging the repelling forces that are me and you Well, I'm done with you, you sneaky little duck June bugs, butterflies, sand in my pants, midnight moon and those pesky little ants You ripped my heart in half, I'll stitch it up if it's certain we are through Why the hell are the seasons fickle, just like you? If it snows again, then I'll have to ask: There are no more crinkly leaves I need to rakeīut there's a chance, a chance I need to takeīirds and bees are here again, we haven't talked since God knows when Rays of sunlight reflecting off the snowflakes I can't begin to imagine where I went wrong Winter's here and settled in, but where are you? Rays of sunlight down the sidewalk, down on meĬasting light on the turning leaves and what I'm supposed to see
More than just a silly girl, waiting for the sun to hurl Pumpkin seeds stuck in my teeth, there's something more I need to be The trees stand so tall and bare, and here I stand without a care
From there, it snowballed into a song about time and endings through the different seasons, which was something that would come up again in our conversations and songwriting.” – Sammy Brownĭandelions have gone to seed, it's my soul I need to feed I remember my grandma saying something earlier that day like “Oh, the dandelions are going to seed” since summer was starting to slip away, and I liked that phrase so we started with that. But I stayed over at Zach’s after everyone left and we decided to write our own song. We were hanging out with a larger group of friends and did the whole let’s-start-a-band thing, AKA - spending an hour finding a song to cover and then maybe fiddling around with it for 30 minutes, which IS fun, but then you know, people have to go home for dinner and whatnot. “Blueberries was the first one Zach and I ever wrote together.
Read more about Sammy and Zach’s friends: Zach’s Sobiech’s friends and then-girlfriend talk “Clouds” movie Blueberries We asked the real Sammy Brown about the inspiration for a few of her and Zach’s songs: “Blueberries,” “Sandcastles,” “Fix Me Up,” “Clouds” and “How to Go to Confession,” all of which are featured in the movie “Clouds.” The stories behind each of them are below. They formed a band called “A Firm Handshake” and recorded an album, “Fix Me Up.” Before he passed away, Zach (played by Fin Argus) and his best friend and bandmate, Sammy Brown (played by Sabrina Carpenter) wrote several songs together as a way of saying goodbye once it was clear that Zach’s cancer was terminal. On October 16, Disney+ released the movie “Clouds,” an inspiring film about teenage songwriter Zach Sobiech who rose to fame before passing away from osteosarcoma, a deadly bone cancer, in 2013.