before you drown immortal thoughts by mortal dreams rip my soul and tear apart immortal streams through holes of distant places - never seen blowing leaves on watchful trees blackened dirt finds the scent of pine and painful endings by surprise and not foreseen immortal days and nights on end when loved ones get tossed by sin booze comes in to hold my hand waking up still dazed and lost not seeing the faces I've crossed some of you may understand how life gets loose and breaks like a bull - beneath the brand I know that it's my heart that screams and longs to live at last - on nights like this fighting clowns care no more battered hands with bloody sores finding smiles who see the score we hide behind our certain lives forgetting how at night we cry give us love beyond our means we pray and curse to fill our stay and pass the days with sleepy stares on each others faces - unaware now is the time to fill the tide and catch ourselves before we die beware the clown with scorn and frown and rise above - before you drown