Liberated
Featuring Trang on acoustic keys and My Lan and Khai on vocals.
A young man stood upon the sand
Of the sunny Mediterranean shore
He walked into the cresting waves
And swam away from worldly din and life's ardor
At the jagged cove's far mouth
A precipice loomed over churning ocean swell
The young man scrabbled up the rocks
And marveled how his strong hands carried him so well
And he was liberated
All worries abated
Free
As he surveyed the pale horizon
The morning breeze caressed his skin and dried his hair
But when he stirred and made to descend
The craggy path was coarsened where it had been fair
The ocean too became malicious
Had he misjudged the height he'd climbed or depth below?
Or had the wily tide receded
Patiently stranding him with furtive steady flow?
Not one moment could slip by
The only choice left was to fly
And when time stretches endlessly in our minds
Gravity bends us back and reminds
Though our dreams may know no boundary
We're creatures of the earth and sea
We fall
So when he pierced the em'rald green
He thought of all the many blessings he'd have lost
And staring into midnight ocean
Felt grateful it had not exacted such a cost
But when he breached and breathed the warm air
He gazed up at the place he'd feared to climb or fly
And yet again it seemed inviting
The cliff no longer seemed so threateningly high
And he was liberated
All fears abated
Free
