Sail Across the Water - Jane Siberry

Love is trembling

Trembling like the little bird we hold within our hands

Love is bending

Bending towards the worried brow

Here, let me wipe away your tears

Love is kneeling

Above the broken body

The ever-upturned face

Love is missing

All the words are broken, help me

I cannot find my way

No, I can’t

I need you love

Come on love

Will you sail 'cross the water

And lay your wisdom down?

And love will you sail 'cross the water

And tell us what you found?

And love will you sail 'cross the water

And hold us when we drown?

And love will you sail 'cross the water?

Is anybody listening???

Love is trembling

Trembling like the leaves above the baby’s bed

Love is streaming

Streaming with the tears that we cannot seem to shed

Love is frozen

Frozen in the figure they just pulled from the subway grate

Love is burning

Burning with the anger that we all feel

Against which we kneel

Our faces pressed into the lap of loneliness

Come on love

Will you sail 'cross the water

And lay your wisdom down?

And love will you sail 'cross the water

And tell us what you found?

And love will you sail 'cross the water

And hold us when we drown?

And love will you sail 'cross the water?

Are we not willing?

are we not trying?

Are we not trusting?

are we not crying?

Are we not children?

are we not stumbling?

Are we not wondering?

are we not?

Will you sail 'cross the water

And lay your wisdom down?

And love will you sail 'cross the water

And tell us what you found?

And love will you sail 'cross the water

And hold us when we drown?

And love will you sail 'cross the water?

Are we not willing?

are we not bending?

Are we not frozen?

are we not trembling?

Are we not children?

are we not trying?

Are we not wondering?

are we not?

Love is trembling…