Lyrics

The Joy of Drowning

I turned my back on the ocean, though my grandmother said it was wrong
I was drawn by endless motion, in the tides and blue commotion, was a song

I turned to see the shore behind me, and my limbs became sticks as I fell
I was swept out with the driftwood, with the birds and their communion in the swell

and when every word and everyone and everything I know is wrong
This song will guide me home

And when everything and everyone and everywhere I know is wrong,
This song will guide me home

With the weight of the sun on my shoulders
and the waves reaching up to become
part of an endless circle with me stuck in the middle of it all

and when every word and everyone and everything I know is wrong
This song will guide me home

And when everything and everyone and everywhere I know is wrong,
This song will guide me home