If I Drown

learned how to swim in the shallows

dived off the dock from the gallows

taste like a dream, so elusive

earn your respect, so abusive

would you put your arms around me?

would you pick me up and ground me -

will you breathe some life between these lips

and tell me it's alright?

i'm on my last concession

coming up from so much compression

and i've just got one more question

will you tell me it's alright?..

if i drown, if i sink

fail to rise...oh, sarah

if the wind beneath my wings

slowly dies...oh, sarah

would you tell me it's alright?

drunk on a glance from a shadow

pray, beg a smile to remember

smoke from the stream, autumn embers

drift to the depths...let it burn