Whistlin' Down the Water

I'm a floating in the grand canyon, heron and sandstone

without a single care, well we've found ourselves a hole

Just a-pissin' in the water, maybe we are dead after all

A cloudy head of spines, a blade of vishnu spire, a heart of granite doom

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin' down the water

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin' down the water

I'm a-ridin' in a rubber ducky with my camera and my PFD

Just a-punchin' through the sick-nasty, got a picture at the grannery

I think this year will be the one that goes down in history

A complicated mind, eroding over time, the womb of the Hopi

(and we wonder why we just don't stay here)

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin' down the water

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin' down the water

I'm a-watchin' how the sun shines against the tectonic sheets

She's a-wounded by a long life, but sturdy in her seams

I'm a-broken by a bystander, hooved and humble, she's a wastelander

A smoky liquid sky, alujah adoni, pure again in your tether

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin' down the water

O-oo oo oo oo, the great forgiver and forgetter

I'm a-wakin' by the moon shearing by the sail of an empty stream

Bound in flight and set on re-sealing all our cracks and dreams and leaks

I wonder always of our great failure to withhold our reverence for our claim-stakers

We're always asking why, Detura valentine, a rowdy lot of risk-takers

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin' down the water

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin' down the water

I've been working on perfection, baptisms always come in threes

A holy-water blood transfusion from the well of ancient you and me

I'm a-listenin' to the busy chatter of the ring-tailed bandits and the song of Saturn

We're deafened by our plight, ignoring warning signs, the siren on the sea, singin'

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin down the water

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin' down the water

I smell the burning of a forest fire from the world up above the rim

It's a-blockin out the stars, carried on the passage of the wind

The whirlybird is looking for survivors, maybe last night's lightning was the big red button

A selfish little life, a spotty alibi, forgotten how to be human

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin' down the water

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin' down the water

I've been turning on a dime and you are throwing in a rope

Worry slowing to a grind, heartache turning in to black-hills gold

Travelin' through time, reaching through the cosmic telephone

Tiptoe through the crypto, Little Colorado, polished shale and bone

The lava knows we're never really through it

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin' down the water

O-oo oo oo oo, the echo of the seekers

O-oo oo oo oo, just a-screaming toward the future

O-oo oo oo oo, whistlin' down the water