Liquid Days

Sunlight has not found us
Over forty days or more
While the flood outside
Provides no guide
To bring this little boat ashore
Where we are this hour
Is not where we will be
When these liquid days are done
In a turn of light
Like sun on subtle rose
We will see how far we’ve come
I held my breath to bursting
'Til I found myself inhaled
Three days and nights
To waive my rights
In the belly of a diving whale
Where we are this hour
Is not where we will be
When these liquid days are done
In a turn of light
Like sun on subtle rose
We will see what we’ve become
See it rising from the sea
I see something
Something that I might have missed
There’s a shadow of a cloud now
A cloud no bigger than a big man’s fist
There’s a shadow of a cloud now
A cloud no bigger than a big man’s fist
What we know this hour
Is not what we will know
When these liquid days are done
In a turn of light
Like sun on subtle rose
We will see what’s just begun
Rivers, no uprising
And the seas will cease to rage
When the mourning’s past
Thank God at last
He’s gonna come
And wipe these tears away
Rivers, no uprising
And the seas will cease to rage
When the mourning’s past
Thank God at last
He’s gonna come
And wipe these tears away…