Before There Were Gods

Before there were gods
Before we knew the difference
Before there were lines that marked the land
Between here and there, you knew me
That's what you said, you said
You knew me (you knew I was there)
With a love that reached beyond the dead

Beyond the turning of the world
Beyond the burning of each life I've led
Before there was time
Before we traveled through it
We gathered like pilgrims to stand at the edge
Of all known land

On the shoreline
The waves can play like children
On the shoreline
The footprints wash away

At the end of the world before there were gods
At the end of the world

There are seagulls that cry as the lovers swim by
Near the feet of a savior, standing
There are layers of clouds forming words in the sky
And we read them in swirls, as they can be
When the waters rise
When the waters rise
Rain down to me. Rain down to me. Rain down to me

And I stand here
With my mouth opened wide
Hoping to catch you
Like the rain

And I stand and I trace, in this pilgrim place
All the lines that we made in the sand
Again

Before there were gods
Before we knew the difference
Before there were lines that marked the land
You knew me
That's what you said
You said you knew me

Before there were gods