Words in the Water

I didn't think a date would mean so much but it seems to be bringing back thoughts and memories and feelings I thought I was rid of even though I felt guilty for being rid of them. I can't imagine how much harder it is for those really close to you. I don't want to imagine.

Now that he's said it, I can't imagine this song meaning anything else even though I know there's no way it can really be about you in the last phase of your life. It does fit though. Thankfully, Jesus fulfilled the books demands. It was lifted from you. We know you wanted to live on a better path. It's difficult. Difficult to change. The words touched you. They meant a lot. They were hard to follow, and you were taken home. That shook up our world a bit my friend.

Standing 
Knee deep in cold water
Swiftly moving
Somehow
I knew I lost something


Wading
Waist deep I saw a book there
In the river
Waiting 
For me to find it there
I tried to read it neck deep
Treading water
The tide
Pulled me out to sea


Then with water in my eyes
The words begin to rise from their place
They were beautiful and dread
I reached for them and fed on each phrase
They were honey on my lips
Then a bitter twist in my side
I knew they'd lay me in my grave
"Is there no one who could save me?" I cried




Sinking
Down deep through cold water
Heavy silence
Shadows
Stirring in the gloom
What things
Lay sleeping
Down deep in the darkness?
Woke then to find me in my tomb


Then with water in my eyes
The words begin to rise from their place
They were beautiful and dread
I reached for them and fed on each phrase
They were honey on my lips
Then a bitter twist in my side
I knew they'd lay my in my grave
"Is there no one who could save me?" I cried


When I lost all hope to look
Someone took that heavy book from my hands
All its weight they set aside
After they had satisfied its demands


I felt white and black reverse
And the lifting of a curse from my heart
Then like one receiving sight
I beheld a brilliant light in the dark



It felt really good to scream these words at the top of my lungs on Wednesday. That concert could not have come at a better time. We both closed our eyes and shouted the words as loud as possible. We didn't say so, but I know that we were both thinking of you.

Simple math. The truth cannot be fractioned. 

But I often wish it could.

Words in the Water - Thrice
Simple Math - Manchester Orchestra