The Wheel

I bet you didn't know that the sun took a shine water She drinks up a bit but floats it up to the sky Now what she takes from our lake Will make her a storm cloud that rumbles and tumbles rain From up high, high, high It's a wheel, Winnie This journey of ours Sun to lake to cloud that showers rain back to the lake below And you'll ride that wheel wherever you go Not a minute or moment is the same The wheel keeps you guessing And everything around you is along for the ride The pond, the bullfrogs, the birch trees, and hound dogs plus people, all people ebb and flow With the tide, tide, tide It's a wheel, Winnie A ripple in water Girl to wife to mother to daughter Like all your kinfolk Come and gone Can't stop growing, growing, changing then moving on Once you drop an anchor, a boat gets stuck and it could stay forever Just floating on top Watching life pass it by, just floating up top Show me how to climb back on the wheel I'd be there slick as a slingshot Prepare to get off at the end And share with someone my spot You can't have living without dying So you can't call this living what we got We just are, we just be No before, no beyond A rowboat anchored in the middle of a pond Don't be afraid of death, Winnie Be afraid of not being truly alive You don't need to live forever You just need to live Do you understand? It's a wheel (it's a wheel) A ripple in water Girl to wife to mother to daughter Like all your kinfolk Come and gone It's a wheel (it's a wheel) A circle in motion Can't stop growing, growing, changing and moving on Can't stop growing, growing, changing then moving on