To The Sea - Mark Eitzel

With your hand over your heart

And your Boy Scout face

You win a new merit badge

For a weakness for faith

For a love of strangers

For a love of dangers

That most people don’t feel

Because they don’t really feel

They’re like tables and chairs

They’re like forks and knives

They’re like planes and trains —

Hear 'em bump in the night —

And their souls aren’t talking

They just wash up on the bank

And there their souls are beautiful

But finally start to stink

Their souls aren’t talking

And there are no choirs singing

It’s just the pull of the ocean

Not even freedom is ringing

It’s just a river through Memphis

It’s just a song by Led Zeppelin

You 'gotta whole lotta love'

They want the sound of heaven

And that was all you could give them

That was all you could give them

For people wouldn’t be caught dead

To be seen really living

Grace is always forgotten but never forgiven

And I know all of this because I’m just like them

I’m like some dirty old spy outside the Garden of Eden

They say that fear is a gift, well it kept me breathing

You thought I was busy?

Well I was just busy running

Running from your beauty

Some run from the devil

Some from their own history

Some run from their hopes

And some run to the sea

Stupid, don’t you agree?

Grace is always forgotten but never forgiven