And then the past recedes   and I won't be involved   The effort to be free   Seems pointless from above   You're looking down at me   I'd rather stay below   Than have you staring up at me   It is nowhere I want to go   Ay, this business of how long we try to stay alive   Why to be here you first got to die   so I gave it a try   And what do you know   Time was so long ago   And things come back you see   To where they don't belong   and every drop of sea is the hole ocean   I lied to the greatest thieves   about anything and everything   I'm a figure of forgotten speech   I'm out of reach   I can't play it safe   But I'm might just in case   I'm disguised as a reaching hand   I'm a working man   I don't understand why clockout   come so slow everytime   That's one line I stay right behind