Water
Fluid Wisdom: Embracing Life's Transitions in New Model Army's 'Water'
Lyrics
You win the arguments you have
You succeed in the arguments you engage in
You want so badly to be right
You have a strong desire to be correct
But they just drift away
Arguments or disagreements fade away without resolution
You’re left there with nothing in your hands
You find yourself empty-handed after conflicts
While we tumble from the mountains where we were born
We descend from the mountains of our origin
Born of sky and mountains we tumble from the rocks
Our birthplace is the sky and mountains, and we descend from rocks
Shifting coloured patterns in the brightness of the day
Changing patterns in the brightness of the day
We’re only made of water
We, as humans, are primarily composed of water
The full moon gets us high
The full moon has an intoxicating effect on us
We can change our shape into anything
We have the ability to transform ourselves into any form
As often as we like
We can change our shape at will
All our lives are liquid, there's nothing that is stone
Our lives are fluid, and nothing is permanent like stone
The angles wash to curves and in the end we soak into the hollows of the earth
Angles transform into curves, and eventually, we become part of the earth's hollows
And home we carry with us, just a sense of where we've been
We carry our home with us as a sense of where we've been
As we flow into one another
We merge with each other
I've found you and lost you and found you so many, many times
The speaker has experienced finding and losing someone repeatedly
We're only made of water
We, as humans, are primarily composed of water (repeated)
The full moon gets us high
The full moon has an intoxicating effect on us (repeated)
We can change our shape into anything
We have the ability to transform ourselves into any form (repeated)
As often as we like
We can change our shape at will (repeated)
And mischief and meaning and tricks of the mind
Mischief, meaning, and tricks of the mind
The spray and the mist and the falling of time
Spray, mist, and the passage of time
We're only made of water…
We, as humans, are primarily composed of water (repeated)
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