From the Rivers to the Ocean

When when you were blind, you'd touch things for their shape
Have faith in wordless knowledge, have faith in wordless knowledge
Well I can tell you about the river or we could just get in
The body the rain made of our days before we knew
We are swimming in the rivers of the rains of our days before we knew
And it's hard to explain what I was doing all thinking before you

I guess I was a decent man holdin' on, following the river from above like a bird
Have faith in wordless knowledge and the fallen stars, they flew too
And I knew they were sewing something, something well made for me and you
We are swimming in the rivers of the rains of our days before we knew
And it's hard to explain what I was doing all thinking before you

The city was a fist, I lived on its wrist and I took myself a good long look around
And the river grew higher and wider, deeper and darker as I was closing in
And it led me to you which led me to say "let's get in"
We got in the river and it groped us, made us think of sex between us
At a time in our lives, oh, before we knew
We were swimming in the rivers of the rains of our days before we knew
And it's hard to explain what I was doing all thinking before you

And that beautiful thing you said lying in bed
About all the things I could think of at the end of the day
But of all the places my mind could go
It always comes loping back to you

We are swimming in the river of the rains of our days before we knew
So meet me in the ocean and we'll ride the waves from the rivers to the ocean
Each wave a lounging panther, sharp-eyed and true

We are swimming in the rivers of the rains of our days before we knew
And it's hard to explain what I was doing all thinking before you
Have faith in wordless knowledge, have faith in wordless knowledge