Boatman

<br>Notes:<br><br><br><br>Jt on sony.com: boatman is my brother livingstons song.<br><br>Ive 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.<br><br><br><br>Hearts were exploding around us<br><br>As we drifted south down the bay<br><br>The gray up above and gray down below<br><br>Left us with nothing to say<br><br><br><br>So we drifted along in silence<br><br>til the tickle of life trickled in<br><br>And the rhythm began in the hiss of the sand<br><br>We were catching fire again<br><br><br><br><br><br>Chorus:<br><br>Oh boatman, I am the river<br><br>I am the mountain and the sea<br><br>Oh boatman, taker and giver<br><br>Can you deliver me<br><br>I would forever run free<br><br><br><br><br><br>Yeah we finally caught up with legends<br><br>We were walking along side by side<br><br>We worked out a plan<br><br>To go out hand in hand<br><br>But the long trail just wasnt that wide<br><br><br><br>The water around us was freezing<br><br>We just laughed and threw ourselves in<br><br>And although we were old<br><br>The sting of that cold<br><br>Pumped up the feeling, here it is again<br><br><br><br><br><br>Repeat chorus<br><br><br><br><br><br>Oh Im a message in a bottle<br><br>Drifting along on a deep blue sea<br><br>Waiting for some foreign shore<br><br>Ready for something to be<br><br><br><br>No longer afraid of falling<br><br>We cut the strings to the sky<br><br>We found level ground<br><br>And we put ourselves down<br><br>Amazing we all didn&sup1;t die<br><br><br><br>We took each moment as given<br><br>By second by second they came<br><br>The ice and the sun and the thundering guns<br><br>Good God I was finally sane<br><br><br><br><br><br>Repeat chorus