Boatman Lyrics

Boatman lyrics

Notes:

 

 JT on Sony.com: Boatman is my brother Livingston's song.

 I've always assumed it was about how he and Maggie saved their marriage but I
never really asked. In my family we like to save the intimate stuff for the
general public.

 

 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

 'Til the tickle of life trickled in

 And the rhythm began in the hiss of the sand

 We were catching fire again

 

 

 CHORUS:

 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

 But 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

 

 

 REPEAT CHORUS

 

 

 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 level ground

 And we put ourselves down

 Amazing we all didn¹t die

 

 We took each moment as given

 By second by second they came

 The ice and the sun and the thundering guns

 Good God I was finally sane

 

 

 REPEAT CHORUS