All Along

All along I see you on the riverside
Walking slow following the river tide
Watching my life
flow before my eyes
A prisoner tied to the top of a mast
left alone, thinking of times past
Figured out I wasted 12 years worrying
just about physical pain, getting sick
and the thought of her leaving
To the left, to the right I sway
deserted in the daylight
Wrists rubbing hard on wood
Jennifer, you were the one who made me good
The barge approaches the river’s mouth, still you stand
observing me in my reverie from safe land
Danger on the surface drives you down, drives you down
The mast cracks at my back, I’m free again
I roll around, then I sink
and start to drown
All along I see you from the riverside
Drifting slow, crying into the river-wide
How brave, how bold, to forget who you really are
Merrily, merrily I wait
for the spell to crack and break
Take your place now, captured prince
adventurous one
You am I and have been
all along
Let heaven and nature sing
life oh life is but a dream
What was then will ever be
All along
All at once
Eternity