Deeper Water

Paul Kelly, Randy Jacobs / Paul Kelly: Deeper Water (1995)

	|:	G	C/G	D	G	:|

	G	C/G	D	G
	On a crow	ded beach, in a	distant	time,

	C/G	D	G
At the	height of summer, see a	boy of	five,

	C/G	D	G
At the waters	edge, so	nimble and	free,

	C/G	D	G	C/G	D	G
Jumpin over the	ripples, lookin'	way at the	sea.

Now a man comes up from amongst the throng,

Takes the young boys hand, and his hand is strong.

And the child feels safe, yeah the child feels brave,

As he's carried in those arms up and over the waves.

	|:	G	C/G	D	G	:|	(4x)

Let's move forward now and the child's seventeen,

With a girl in the back seat tugging at his jeans.

She knows what she wants, she guides with her hand,

As a voice cries inside him: I'm a man, I'm a man!

Now the man meets a woman unlike all the rest.

He doesn't know it yet but he's out of his depth.

And he thinks he can run, it's a matter of pride.

But he keeps coming back like a cork on the tide.

Now the years hurry by, and the woman loves the man.

One night in the dark she grabs hold of his hand.

Says: "There can you feel it kicking inside?"

And the man gets a shiver right up and down his spine.

So the clock moves around and the child is a joy.

But death doesn't care just who it destroys.

Now the woman gets sick, thins down to the bone.

She says: "Where I'm going next I'm going alone."

On a distant beach lonely and wild,

At a later time see a man and a child.

And the man takes the child up into his arms,

Takes her over the breakers to where the water is calm.