Swimming in Strange Waters

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 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 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 every living thing