Swimming in Strange Waters - The Wooden Sky

By the time that we got there

It was already too late

They say death had come easy

I didn’t see it that way

I guess they meant you’d stopped breathing

Left behind all that pain

But I barely remember

See my life was on stage

Living is

Lonely at best

Dying could

Bring me some rest

Did our best to deny it

The sun came up anyway

Tore across Turtle Island

On a highway of shame

Still it came without warning

Suppose it happens with age

Somewhere she took to believing

It would just be better this way

So I prayed for forgiveness

And I paid for the rest

Put a nail in his coffin

Put a knife in his chest

And I remembered that phone call

How I had nothing to say

I was crossing the border

I was slipping away

Our bodies stirred these waters briefly

Danced with a certain intoxication

Before the love of life and self

Dealt with a few strange ideas

Then submitted to the instruments of Time

What can we say of this?

I occurred

I am not

Yet I occurred

Let every living thing shine its light on every living thing