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sometimes you are snow
six sides on a plane
nothing looks like you do
nor ever will again
in the company of billions
just far enough away
from the earth to stop you melting
in the heat of the day
..... we are just water anyway
..... we are just water anyway

sometimes you are iron
from the middle of a sun
thrown out by supernovas
to the vacant space beyond
your poles attract another
and then countless more besides
and you coalesce together
till you fall, burning, from the sky

sometimes you are carbon
in the prehistoric mud
sometimes you are salt
dissolved in a prophet's blood
sometimes you are silver
sometimes you're just tin
but you'll never again be nothing
and there may not be an end
..... we are just water anyway
..... we are just water anyway

you can waste yourself on whisky
cocaine and wine
you can kneel in supplication
or believe yourself divine
you can chase a thousand women
or give yourself to one
..... we are just water anyway
..... we are just water anyway

sometimes you are ashes
in a little pewter jar
taken to the seaside
and scattered from the pier
catching the east wind
and blown back in the face
of your widow and your daughter
then away without a trace
..... we are just water anyway
..... we are just water anyway

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from Album Of Songs No​.​1, released August 1, 2007
© Jon Horne 2007

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Jon Horne Edinburgh, UK

Chronicling the folibles of the age via the medium of contemporary folk song since 2005.

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