Boatman - James Taylor

Hearts were exploding around us as we drifted south down the bay

The gray up above and gray down below left us with nothing to say

So we drifted along in silence till the tickle of life trickled in

And the rhythm began in the hiss of the sand, we were catching fire again

Oh boatman, I am the river, I am the mountain and the sea

Oh boatman, taker and giver, can you deliver me?

I would forever run free

Yeah, we finally caught up with legends, we were walking along side by side

We worked out a plan to go out hand in hand, the long trail just wasn’t that

wide

The water around us was freezing, we just laughed and threw ourselves in

And although we were old, the sting of that cold pumped up the feeling,

here it is again

Oh boatman, I am the river, I am the mountain and the sea

Oh boatman, taker and giver, can you deliver me?

I would forever run free

Oh, I’m a message in a bottle drifting along on a deep blue sea

Waiting for some foreign shore, ready for something to be

No longer afraid of falling, we cut the strings to the sky

We found lever ground and we put ourselves down, amazing we all didn’t die

We took each moment as given, by second they came

The ice and the sun and the thundering guns, good God I was finally sane

Oh boatman, I am the river, I am the mountain and the sea

Oh boatman, taker and giver, can you deliver me?

Oh holy roller, I am the river, I am the mountain and the sea

Oh boatman, taker and giver, can you deliver me?

I would forever run free