James Taylor - Boatman Lyrics
Notes:Jt on sony.com: boatman is my brother livingstons song.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.Hearts were exploding around usAs we drifted south down the bayThe gray up above and gray down belowLeft us with nothing to saySo we drifted along in silencetil the tickle of life trickled inAnd the rhythm began in the hiss of the sandWe were catching fire againChorus:Oh boatman, I am the riverI am the mountain and the seaOh boatman, taker and giverCan you deliver meI would forever run freeYeah we finally caught up with legendsWe were walking along side by sideWe worked out a planTo go out hand in handBut the long trail just wasnt that wideThe water around us was freezingWe just laughed and threw ourselves inAnd although we were oldThe sting of that coldPumped up the feeling, here it is againRepeat chorusOh Im a message in a bottleDrifting along on a deep blue seaWaiting for some foreign shoreReady for something to beNo longer afraid of fallingWe cut the strings to the skyWe found level groundAnd we put ourselves downAmazing we all didn¹t dieWe took each moment as givenBy second by second they cameThe ice and the sun and the thundering gunsGood God I was finally saneRepeat chorus
