If I Drown

learned how to swim in the shallows
dived off the dock from the gallows
taste like a dream, so elusive
earn your respect, so abusive

would you put your arms around me?
would you pick me up and ground me -
will you breathe some life between these lips
and tell me it's alright?
i'm on my last concession
coming up from so much compression
and i've just got one more question
will you tell me it's alright?..

if i drown, if i sink
fail to rise...oh, sarah
if the wind beneath my wings
slowly dies...oh, sarah
would you tell me it's alright?

drunk on a glance from a shadow
pray, beg a smile to remember
smoke from the stream, autumn embers
drift to the depths...let it burn