So Much Water Lyrics - The Gathering Field

I could go to anywhere, 

head hung low in shame 

Buy new clothes and dye my hair, 

maybe even change my name 

But the past don't ever disappear, 

and to run's a losing game 

So I might as well hang around here, 

maybe you should do the same 

What I mean to tell you, 

Well you think you own a private hell 

You decorated by yourself 

Books that you wrote on the shelf 

You're dying to come clean somehow 

No need to go a thousand miles away 

What I mean to say is there is... 

So much water, so close 

So much water, so close, so close 

So much water, so close to home 

I woke up on my brother's couch, 

swear I was half-dead 

Both my pockets emptied out, 

my blue eyes painted red 

I thought I had worked through my doubts, 

but they worked me through instead 

I lay there trying to figure out 

who I saw and what I said 

It started coming to me slow 

I saw a girl I used to know 

Asked her how it came to be 

My innocence escaped from me 

Hugged me when she stood to go 

Said there's something you should know my friend 

Then I swear she said that there was... 

So much water... 

You can't describe the pain inside 

but that's all right 

You can't believe you did the things 

you did last night 

Or should I say again, but you try to pretend 

That you never did, yeah you try to keep it hid 

I'm not strong and I'm not wise, 

and there's not much I know 

Told my share of downright lies, 

spent some time below 

Stumbled down a darkened road 

just beyond my childhood home 

Crossed the grassy clearing there, 

into the forest black and bare 

Came upon a silver stream, 

through the vast transparency I stared 

I had been unaware that there was 

so much water...