Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Boatman , by - James Taylor. Release date: 19.05.1997
Song language: English
Boatman |
| Hearts were exploding around us as we drifted south down the bay |
| The gray up above and gray down below left us with nothing to say |
| So we drifted along in silence till the tickle of life trickled in |
| And the rhythm began in the hiss of the sand, we were catching fire again |
| Oh boatman, I am the river, I am the mountain and the sea |
| Oh boatman, taker and giver, can you deliver me? |
| I would forever run free |
| Yeah, we finally caught up with legends, we were walking along side by side |
| We worked out a plan to go out hand in hand, the long trail just wasn’t that |
| wide |
| The water around us was freezing, we just laughed and threw ourselves in |
| And although we were old, the sting of that cold pumped up the feeling, |
| here it is again |
| Oh boatman, I am the river, I am the mountain and the sea |
| Oh boatman, taker and giver, can you deliver me? |
| I would forever run free |
| Oh, I’m a message in a bottle drifting along on a deep blue sea |
| Waiting for some foreign shore, ready for something to be |
| No longer afraid of falling, we cut the strings to the sky |
| We found lever ground and we put ourselves down, amazing we all didn’t die |
| We took each moment as given, by second they came |
| The ice and the sun and the thundering guns, good God I was finally sane |
| Oh boatman, I am the river, I am the mountain and the sea |
| Oh boatman, taker and giver, can you deliver me? |
| Oh holy roller, I am the river, I am the mountain and the sea |
| Oh boatman, taker and giver, can you deliver me? |
| I would forever run free |