[Verse 1] Back and forth along the same track, A certain place, then turning back. The sea moves round us, wide and blue, Becoming all, then nothing too. The waves bear us without reply, We move ahead, yet still we lie Between the leaving and the shore, The same old passage, evermore. [Verse 2] Almost every week I ride, With familiar faces at my side. Some return; some disappear Before I learn the steps they bear. Some laugh and talk; some look away, Their eyes beyond the glass all day. Some cross the moment, some the din Of all the roads they walk within. [Chorus] I follow light across the water, Maybe they are following home. I watch and wait, and look for answers In the faces passing through. But perhaps no face can tell me What the journey asks us to do; Maybe all we bring back with us Is the sea we travelled through. [Verse 3] Perhaps beyond the far horizon, There’s a place I cannot reach. Near enough to keep pursuing, Far beyond the edge of speech. Back and forth along the same track, One more crossing, one way back. Some are running, some walk slow; When the doors swing open, some must go. [Chorus] I follow light across the water, Maybe they are following home. I watch and wait, and look for answers In the faces passing through. But perhaps no face can tell me What the journey asks us to do; Maybe all we bring back with us Is the sea we travelled through. [Bridge] No one leaps into the water. Some come back and ride again, As if answers wait beyond us, Just across the way, and then— I step down, a little wiser, Still no answer in my hands. All my questions leave beside me, Still awake where dry land stands. [Final Chorus] I followed light across the water, Maybe they were following home. I watched and waited for an answer In the faces passing through. Now I know no face can tell me What the journey asks us to do; We are carried, we are changing, By the sea we travel through. [Outro] Back and forth, never empty. Now I stand upon the quay, Turn around, and watch the water Carry on without a key.
