How deep, how deep lies you?
Where is your anchor caught
And why do you never raise it?
There must be something
One thing that you know without speech
Without casting nets deep
To retrieve the feelings you hide
I'll confess, but how much
How much do you trust my words?
I'm not a lawyer, as some
Would have you know serenely
Not a judge, nor a doctor
Nor a thing foreign to my country
And my country is my belief
My belief that all are deep
I'll explore, but just how deep
Lies the ocean floor of your thoughts?
I don't dive, I don't die
For no reason, when nothing's gained
But gain is in the mouth and the ear
Of the beholder beholding loss
And neither will you nor I gain nor lose
By diving deep and diving true
Some explorations are not winners
Some are just small trespasses
And some arrive at deeper impasses
From which the anchor cannot be drawn
But I am deep, deep am I
How deep, how deep lies you?
I am deep, deep am I
How deep, how deep lies you?
I'll mature, but not enough
For anything too serious for fun
Stars are striped and oceans red
In my slightly futuristic headwear
And I can be most naturally
An anchor to the deepest ground
But those not deep have no strength
And my chain is hard to hold
And I'll confess, I've not seen best
Blurred by lines of misconceptions
Not often seen among mermen deep
But mermaids fair (and those so homely)
Only count towards a fairer crowd
Beauty falls to me like a boulder
And I admit to being quite flattened
But only by a deeper weight than rocks
And I'll explore, never in time
Or with the tide, with the rain
Tornadoes blow, but only above
And surface waves don't hit me
But enough with water metaphors!
I'm strained to a limit of pouring words
And my beliefs, waves, and beauty
May just be too deep for you
And then you are the thunderstorms
In you, the next ship on the sea
Periscopes ride shallow to see
But I rise too shallow to fall to deep
And I have an anchor, an anchor am I
Will you hold on to my chain?
I am deep, deep am I
How deep, how deep lies you?
Will I explore? Will you succumb?
Do not faint, no sleeping trance for you
I don't have a mouth I can open on yours
And you would drown without my oxygen
Dying, you would leave me deep
Not another ship to drag down from shallow
Not another hope, cause everyone now
Armors their ships, afraid of the sea
Will I concur? With whom agree?
Do not agree with me never or ever
If you look you will see a creature in me
Somewhat overstuffed with thoughts
We've all been stuffed with the stuff of dreams
Since the world became oysters
Since the world sailed shallow
The water has become unclean
And now, back to you, to you
Your anchors and chains and ships
What do you know of oceans deep?
Were you raised to expand to meet
This, all this, foreign information
Will you die when the waters turn dark?
Or will you part water, invite me in
Ride with me to ectasy deep
And yes, some explorations are failures
Some confessions don't impress
And some deep hit shallow impasses
From which the anchor cannot be drawn
But some attempts sink down to the bottom
They drown together, deep in the sea
And I am deep, deep am I
How deep, how deep lies you?
I am deep, deep am I
How deep, how deep lies you?