Deep Water

You find yourself falling down

Your hopes in the sky

But your heart like grape gum on the ground

And you try to find yourself

In the abstractions of religion

And the cruelty of everyone else

And you wake up to realize

Your standard of living

Somehow got stuck on survive



When you're standing in deep water

And you're bailing yourself out with a straw

And when you're drowning in deep water

And you wake up making love to a wall

Well it's these little times that help to remind

It's nothing without love



You wake up to realize your only friend

Has never been yourself or anyone who cared in the end

That's when suddenly everything fades or falls away

Cause the chains which once held us are only the chains we've made



--- Written and Vocals by Jewel Kilcher

(from the album Spirit)



It's just that sometimes I feel this way about life and it takes a lot of faith to be optimistic...