Deeper Water Lyrics

Deeper Water lyrics

On a crowded beach in a distant time
At the height of summer see a boy of
five
At the water's edge so nimble and free
Jumping over the ripples
looking way out to sea 

Now a man comes up from amoungst the
throng
Takes the young boy's hand and his hand is strong
And the child
feels safe, yeah the child feels brave
As he's carried in those arems up and
over the waves 

Deeper water, deeper water, deeper water, calling him on


Let's move forward now and the child's seventeen
With a girl in the
back seat tugging at his jeans
And she knows what she wants, she guides with
her hand
As a voice cries inside him - I'm a man, I'm a man! 

Deeper
water, deeper water, deeper water, calling him on 

Now the man meets a
woman unlike all the rest
He doesn't know it yet but he's out of his
depth
And he thinks he can run, it's amatter of pride
But he keeps coming
back like a cork on the tide 

Well the years hurry by and the woman loves
the man
Then one night in the dark she grabs hold of his hand
Says 'There,
can you feel it kicking inside!'
And the man gets a shiver right up and down
his spine 

Deeper water, deeper water, deeper water, calling him on


So the clock moves around and the child is a joy
But Death doesn't
care just who it destroys
Now the woamn gets sick, thins down to the
bone
She says 'Where I'm going next, I'm going alone' 

Deeper water,
deeper water 

On a distant beach lonely and wild
At a later time see
a man and a child
And the man takes the child up into his arms
Takes her
over the breakers
To where the water is calm 

Deeper water, deeper
water,
Deeper water, calling them on