All Along - Laura Jean

All along I see you on the riverside

Walking slow following the river tide

Watching my life

flow before my eyes

A prisoner tied to the top of a mast

left alone, thinking of times past

Figured out I wasted 12 years worrying

just about physical pain, getting sick

and the thought of her leaving

To the left, to the right I sway

deserted in the daylight

Wrists rubbing hard on wood

Jennifer, you were the one who made me good

The barge approaches the river’s mouth, still you stand

observing me in my reverie from safe land

Danger on the surface drives you down, drives you down

The mast cracks at my back, I’m free again

I roll around, then I sink

and start to drown

All along I see you from the riverside

Drifting slow, crying into the river-wide

How brave, how bold, to forget who you really are

Merrily, merrily I wait

for the spell to crack and break

Take your place now, captured prince

adventurous one

You am I and have been

all along

Let heaven and nature sing

life oh life is but a dream

What was then will ever be

All along

All at once

Eternity