The Watershed

I don’t know you like before
I can’t tell what I stand tall for
I won't feel it when I fall
But you know me too well

I am known before it all
Won while foresight found my shortfall
Now I reach a brand new low
You still know me
Close, below

For once in my life, I know grace
Come to be ashamed, in my place
This is knowing where I’m from and where I've been
Here I stand unchained
Wretched, but free

Call, call on me
Wish I’d courage to make you see
When the dark comes around
And my light just can’t be found
Fall, fall on me
Make me whole and great is Thee

Let it flow for all to see
Send down fire
Land on me

Wake, wake my heart, take me further
I must part with old sunken lines
Going nowhere yet still define
Call, call on me
Wish I’d courage to make you see

Oh child of mine
I fell into your life
With not a single gift but love
Try, try as I might to lead you and do alright
No single day goes by where I don't fail you

Know that my heart is desperate to see you win at life
This is my song as you struggle on with me

Oh if only you knew my heart for you
Time turns, growth hurts
Love inside me for you is still unchanging

Every one of my words
Created to do no harm
Encourage and guide you on in love
The creaking of my bones bring on no bitterness
I’m just glad that I have you

Know that my heart is desperate to see you win at life
This is my song as you struggle on with me

Oh if only you knew my heart for you
Time turns, growth hurts
Love inside me for you is still unchanging

Take these words and lay them high
Upon your breast remember why
I gave you all that I could bring
I gave you my everything

Pounding, heart in breast and chest to beat
Heaven open up and come to me
My courage flees
Soon death fights for me
A captive free
Say nothing
Breathe in
Breathe out

My soul, sweat and blood fall to the ground
Take me far away
I cannot breathe
Tonight will be my last night reprieve
They come with speed
Say nothing
Breathe out
Out sound

Tonight will be my last night reprieve
They come with speed
Say nothing
Breathe in
Breathe out
Out sound

Love is lost
By the fire
In the dark
Whisper close
Shut your eyes
Declare three false
love-free thoughts
Lie to me

Nothing will break my heart
Only these two
Nothing will break my heart
Push against me and your best
Pull back at reason and stick out your chest
How close to my heart is all of this mess

Nothing will make us part
If you let me
Nothing will make us part
If we choose to
Stand with the best at our worst
Bruising but hopeful, breaking the curse
I’m crowding my heart with all of this mess

Nothing can break me
Flood me and fill this void
Fill this nothing

Stand with the best at our worst
Bruising but fight for a break in the curse
I’m proud of this heart
And all of this mess

Midnight, die down
Bring out the sun
Blossom from the charred ground
Shoot up and bud
The winter wild has blown away
My shelter torn apart
The seeds of joy in storms and rain
Are waiting in the dark

With a rush of reason
I want to love this season
I want to love this season
All the while I want it gone

Here it’s a hell-hole
Water my tongue
Soothing my scorched heart
Spit out the bitter
Torrential rain, it’s heavy now
And horrors melt me down
Steel in me will shield a hope
That beckons to me now

With a rush of reason
I want to love this season now
I want to love this season
All the while I want it gone

Your back is mine
Whether it's waning
Even under fire
Even under fire
Your back is mine

Don't fear my ways
Don't doubt this day
I'm here to stay

You are the most lovely thing I have ever seen
Don't look away, don't take the sun from my world
Mountains and valleys they don't compare to you
Don't look away, you're the sun in my world

Don't call on me anymore
There's no we in here, between us
What happened to our wings that flew high
Made us wise, but now they've fallen

I don't know how to make you happy
I don't know how to make you care
Maybe we're lost out there

Whisper your thoughts to me
I won't tell anyone your secrets
Coals burn without a flame tonight
You, the one I want was stolen

Forever long, way way too long
Take me along your long long ride
For way too long, forever long
Take me along your long long ride

How many times will you meet me here
Unloading laden luggage
Falling to my knees
How many hours of talking with blind eyes
Not seeing what you are not hearing

Don't go changing for me
Don't keep complaining about me
You are how I want you
I’m happy that I have you
Don't change a thing

How many winters were cold seeps in
Will they encapsulate my bones
How many mornings, sunrise in tow
Before I wake to see that you are in it all

Oh, have you had enough of chasing your tail
Oh, now that’s enough
Let down your sails

Don't go changing for me
Don't keep complaining about me
You are how I want you
I’m happy that I have you
Don't change a thing

Every now and then
I get more than a little bit lost
I am lonesome
Like I told you
Every now and then
I get caught up
Missing all greatness
I'm dreaming, so you tell me

Wandering horse
Rider is gone
Freely falling
Flower and seed
Thrown to the street
Happily lost

Problems, can they ever be solved
Likelihood they'll never resolve
Possible, here put a because
My nightmares tell me I am the cause
Take me out
I panic and pause

Entertain my mind, switch if off
I’m sipping my coffee, it’s burning
But I feel nothing

Flour to knead
Roll it and beat
Keep it coming
Come to a head
Put it to bed
Level the loss

Problems, can they ever be solved
Likelihood they'll never resolve
Possible, here put a because
My nightmares tell me I am the cause
Take me out
I panic and pause

Draw your line around your loved ones
Sketch a heart
Surround us
Build a wall to keep the doubts out
Hold our hands
And with us shout

Hold on my love
Hold on
Hold on

With a smile wear your struggle
With each step toward tomorrow
Live in hope
Risk it all
And hold on

Stand by me, and at your full height
Stay and fight, day to night
Chance a change to chase your freedom
Find your home at home with us

I am a great body of water below
You go over and over me
And on clear nights, I see you cross the sky

You appear as a thin curl
When you’re full you are a pearl
Formed in secret, under many folds of water

There are nights when the scudding clouds cover
You appear and disappear
Gone for weeks behind clouds as thick as land

All my tides are yours, my leagues and fathoms
All my waters follow after you

Then the sky cracks and screams
I send up torrents of towering water
Dash themselves in swirling valleys

From roaring deep I call to you, remember
Those times when you rest on my waters
Here and there, full and true in both places

All my tides are yours, my leagues and fathoms
All my waters follow hard after you