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