For many long years
I did write you a song
For many long years
When you bound my tongue
I would smile through the pain
When you bound my tongue
For many long years
Your heavy hand lay
On the top of my head
Your heavy hand lay
And just under water
I struggled and stayed
Just under water
By your heavy hand
Low brought down
Away from the light
I sank deeper still
Away from the light
The thread of my will
Held because and despite
The thread of my will
Away from the light
And deep in the sea
I sought out my worth
Deep in the sea
I struggled and fought
All the demons that be
I struggled and fought
Deep in the sea
So to drown
The surface I broke
Then I stuttered and stopped
The surface I broke
My breath it was caught
In a water-filled lung
My breath it was caught
When the surface I broke
But oh the sun’s rise
As I looked where I’d come
And oh the sun’s rise
It loosened my tongue
And it lifted my eyes
It loosened my tongue
Yes, all the sun’s rise
And oh
My soul
It glows again
