Through Me (The Flood)

Picture a man, seen like a speck out from this shore

Swimming out beyond the breakers like he's done his life before

He feels a coming of the squall will drag him out a greater length

But knows his strength, tries to gather it

And he swims on, turning back to shore again

Above the outer atmosphere of a world he's never seen

And looking down to his new home, he feels the rising of a wave

And knows, at once, he will not weather it

Like that man, I looked down into the depths when I met you

I couldn't measure it

Any time I'd struggled on

Against the course, out on my own

Every time, I'd burn through the world, I'd see

That the world, it burns through me

But when I (when, I) I'd let go (I'd let go)

My struggling form (my struggling form)

My willing soul (I'd see)

Every time (each time I)

I'd flow through the world, I'd see (flow through)

That the world (the world)

It flows through me (it flows through me)

That the world, it flows through me

Picture a grave, picture six feet freshly dug

The sharp temporary walls at the long-term cliff edge of the world

Light and air find some new deepness there and usher down the sky

Where one stands by, tries make sense of it

Try measure loss, measure the silence of a house

The unheard footsteps at the doorway, the unemployment of the mouth

The waking up, having forgotten and remembering again

The full extent of what forever is

With each grave, I think of loss and I can only think of you

I couldn't measure it

Any time I've struggled on (struggled on)

Against the course (against the course)

Out on my own (I'd see)

Every time (each time I)

I'd burn through the world, I'd see (burn through)

That the world (the world)

It burns through me (it burns through me)

But when I (when I), I'd let go (I'd let go)

My struggling form (my struggling form)

My willing soul (I'd see)

Every time (each time I)

I'd flow through the world, I'd see (flow through)

That the world (the world)

It flows through me (it flows through me)

That the world, it flows through me