Lyrics The Drowning Man [live]

(This is called The Drowning Man)

She stands twelve feet above the flood
She stares alone across the water
The loneliness grows and slowly
Fills her frozen body
Sliding downwards

One by one her senses die
Memories fade and leave her eyes
Seeing worlds that never were
And one by one the bright birds leave her

Starting at the violent sound
She tries to turn, but final, noiseless
Slips and strikes her soft dark head
The water bows, receives her
And drowns her at its ease
And drowns her at its ease

I would have left the world all bleeding
Could I only help you love
The fleeting shapes so many years ago
So young and beautiful and

Everything was true
Couldn't be a story
I wish it was all true
I wish it couldn't be a story

The words all left me
Lifeless, hoping
Breathing like the drowning man

Fuschia
You leave me breathing like the drowning man
Breathing like the drowning man
Breathing like the drowning man
Breathing like the drowning man