Swimming In Strange Waters Lyrics - 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 

Living is lonely at best 

Dying could bring me some rest 

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 

Living is lonely at best 

Dying could bring me some rest 

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 me every living thing 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing shine its light on me 

Let every living thing, every living thing 

Every living thing, every living thing 

Every living thing, every living thing 

Every living thing, every living thing 

Every living thing, every living thing 

Every living thing, every living thing