Boatman Lyrics - James Taylor

Notes: 

Jt on sony.com: boatman is my brother livingston's song. 

I've always assumed it was about how he and maggie saved their marriage but I never really asked. in my family we like to save the intimate stuff for the general public. 

Hearts were exploding around us 

As we drifted south down the bay 

The gray up above and gray down below 

Left us with nothing to say 

So we drifted along in silence 

'til the tickle of life trickled in 

And the rhythm began in the hiss of the sand 

We were catching fire again 

Chorus: 

Oh boatman, I am the river 

I am the mountain and the sea 

Oh boatman, taker and giver 

Can you deliver me 

I would forever run free 

Yeah we finally caught up with legends 

We were walking along side by side 

We worked out a plan 

To go out hand in hand 

But the long trail just wasn't that wide 

The water around us was freezing 

We just laughed and threw ourselves in 

And although we were old 

The sting of that cold 

Pumped up the feeling, here it is again 

Repeat chorus 

Oh I'm a message in a bottle 

Drifting along on a deep blue sea 

Waiting for some foreign shore 

Ready for something to be 

No longer afraid of falling 

We cut the strings to the sky 

We found level ground 

And we put ourselves down 

Amazing we all didn¹t die 

We took each moment as given 

By second by second they came 

The ice and the sun and the thundering guns 

Good God I was finally sane 

Repeat chorus