Perfect Water Lyrics - Jim Carroll

Perfect water 

The dark wind braids the waves 

The crazed birds raid the trees 

Is this our destiny? 

To join our hands at sea 

And slowly sink, and slowly think 

This is perfect water, passing over me . . . 

Do you know jacques cousteau? 

Well, they said on the radio 

That he hears bells in random order 

Deep breaths beneath the perfect water 

Love that is frightening 

But still so inviting 

To drown inside a sound 

That lay so far underground 

And to think . . . and to think 

This is perfect water passing over me 

Refrain: 

To flow inside the spiral tide 

To drown my eyes like a blind ride 

And to cross the perils of black water 

It waits for me like mother and daughter 

A life of perfect order 

A strange and perfect water 

Perfect water 

I dream this dream within the warm gulf stream 

Where two blocks of ice melt into my hands like dice 

And I roll seven on the floor of the sea 

And I feel the perfect water washing over me 

Repeat refrain