Coming Alive - David Wilcox

They open their eyes in the ocean below

They can’t see the water

They don’t even know why they fly

Coming alive

Caught on a hook, held in the air

Starving for breath

Finally aware of the tide

Coming alive

Our plans will fail

Our dreams will shatter

Like crashing waves upon the beach

And what remains is all that matters

The lonely wave

Becomes the sea

Coming alive

The burden we bear

Is to have to compare

The life that we live to the hope

Waiting there inside that’s coming alive

The comfort we find

With our bodies entwined

Opens the soul to the touch

Of a love that’s divine that’s coming alive

The gift of life can see her breathing

Sweet release upon her face

And as she sighs she is receiving

The falling star, the spark of grace

Coming alive

Slowly coming alive

To the wide eyed life

Open heart, open eye

Open mind

The glimmer of stars that reflects in her eyes

How many million of light years it took to arrive

Coming alive

At the edge of what’s known and the top of the veil

The place where a soul to be born

Has been waiting to fly

We’re coming alive

Where we’ve been we don’t remember

As we fall into this storm

We’re taken in as we surrender to the death of being born

Coming alive