Downstream From the colossal current Redeemed Only by struggling through it So hard to ascend When overextended It’s too late to turn Once you have spurned Where you started from To get to where you’re going You’re shedding your skin A path for your kin to follow Bits to swallow Hope it doesn’t make them sick Keep your shape Until they find their way Fast approaching self-reliance Unbound, will they choose defiance? ‘Cause barring self-defeat, they’re damned to repeat The same miracle, miracle, miracle Picked clean Yet marrow wastes beneath the bone Too keen To struggle further on their own Fast approaching self-reliance But now they choose defiance And barring self-defeat, they’re damned to repeat The same miracle, miracle, miracle And they could only be redeemed By drifting out to sea Far away from the stream that calls out Endlessly They could only be redeemed By drifting out to sea So far away from the steam that calls out Endlessly