If you want to cross to the other side,
I will follow you.
Splash the water over my face now,
Deepest shade of blue.
Follow the hand of an invisible man;
I still have eyes to see.
Cross the water where the moonlight glistens,
Like waking from a dream.
Oh did I fly? Fly? Fly right next to you?
Did we run on legs to the mountain top
Palest shade of blue?
Oh did I fall? Fall so far I couldn’t breath?
Did you watch my eyes through the bubbling waves
Beginning to believe?
If you call to me from the other side,
I will always come;
Come in the body of a feathery bird
Sucking on my thumb.
Whistle to me through a deep blue wave,
I still have ears to hear.
Splash the water over my face now,
The hard things disappear.
And we will run, run, run through fields of green
And you will cry out, what a happy surprise,
Things were never what they seemed.
And God will run, run beside us like a dog
And we will toss him sticks, and teach him tricks
As the golden sun dissolves.
But if you want to stay in an indelicate world,
I will stay with you.
Splash the water over my face now,
Blackest shades of blue.
Three men watch from across the hill,
Head to toe in black.
Lines are drawn and when you cross them
You’re never going back.
But I could fight, fight, fight just like a dream,
And I could teach myself to always believe that
Things are what they seem.
And I could hate, hate, hate right by your side
And we could struggle to take the western gate
Before the golden sun declines.
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