Jonas Sees In Color - Water on the Rise lyrics

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The old men say the sea is not forgiving

That she aches for the living with an

Eternal belly that swallowed her soul

They say he heard a voice that came from the sky

And it told him what to do to survive

So he took his axe to the cypress and oak

He dug the bark and ripped the leaves

That turned poison into air to breathe

And he didn't stop until he'd built a boat

I was standing on a mountaintop

And I stood still until I saw the water on the rise

I watched as the buildings fell

I had so much to say and no one to tell

I thought of you as his ship went by

I was the highest point of the planet Earth

But lower than I'd ever been before

I caught his eye and I saw him smile

I tried to understand what he'd done

I weighed what he'd been given

Against what he'd given up

He gave up everything for love

As the gulls creaked a hymn

He washed his hands of salt and sin

And prayed for the water to get shallow

He kept his fingers on his pulse

To keep his mind off all he'd lost

He chose the rosary

I chose the gallows

Because I'd rather be gone than stay here alone

And have the whole wide world

With nowhere to call home

I'd rather be lost than have nowhere to go

I tried to understand what he'd done

I weighed what he'd been given

Against what he'd given up

I'd give up everything for love

I'd rip the globe at the seams

I'd let the whole world fall in the sea

If I thought,

If I thought it'd bring you closer to me

And I would rip the globe

I would rip the globe

I would rip the globe

The globe, the globe

I'd rip the globe at the seams

I'd let the whole world fall in the sea

If I thought,

If I thought it'd bring you closer to me