The Wake Is Over - Mark gillespie

Can there be a lion that forgets how to roar?

Or a high-flying bird that just refuses to soar?

A rolling wave that never reaches the shoreline?

On and on till the end of time

I don’t want to fight about it anymore

Because there’s no doubt in my mind

And I’m so weary and sore

And I’m reminded by

Each breath that I’m drawing

That it’s life and death, no rest

There’s no line you can draw

There’s always more and more

One day you’re up

The next you’re on the way down

Then you’re in it

Below, above, and all around

And all for a minute of this love

You go round and around

Then you know you’ve found

A straighter way through the battleground

And you can see just how bad

It’s really been

But now the battlefield

Is turning green

And you can see that no matter

How bad it seems

A friend can mend a life

Of broken dreams

And you know you’re free to go in love

And you think it’s you and me now

Then you hear some voice moaning

It’s alone, alone

Were you hurled

Or did you just float?

Falling down to the world

Without love, without hope

Were you bound or free

And was I really drowning?

Coming down to me

Both feet on the ground

And in the whirlwind

You can only hope you can float

Never leaving what you’ve found

Not believing in ghosts

Then there’s nothing to know

Not even hoping in hope

Just taking it slow

Because we’re in the same boat

There’s no snake, no rope

And somehow you know it takes time

Taking it slowly

But the wake is over

Taking it slow

The wake is over

You can see how happy I am

You can see the lion

Lying down with the lamb

You can see how good I’m feeling

I didn’t know if the feeling was real

And you can see how happy I am

I am a man who didn’t understand

And you can see just how good I feel

I feel it in my heart

That you’ve been stealing

Is that how you feel?

Turning the wheel, turning

Is that how you feel?

Take this heart

That you’ve been stealing

You don’t have to kneel

You’re turning the wheel, turning

Is that how you feel?