Explorers

This old mountain side where we used to reside
Is slowly recalling the things we discovered inside
Oh, the crystal caves
We shed both our jackets and I hammered brackets
From old metal chairs to the walls for a crude set of stairs
To lead us down
And you tied a rope to the steepening slope
A jerry-rigged harness so we could descend in the dark
But the tide came in

And we found ourselves in the sea
Deep under water, we both found that we could still breathe
So we spent the day submerged
And we swam the evening away

The water was clear like the pure atmosphere
As we kicked and fluttered through caverns all cluttered with age
In the afterglow
We swim hand-in-hand over white satin sand
And you left a ribbon to honor the pale gibbon moon
But that was years ago

And we never came up for air
Down there, we can go anywhere

The old world was dying while we took our flying
Like peregrine falcons beneath the transparent blue waves
Far below the surf
And we spent the hours with submarine flowers
I knew I'd remember that day in November
As we felt alive again

'Cause we found ourselves in the sea
Deep underwater, we both found that we could still breathe
So we spent the day submerged
And we swam the evening away
We swam the evening away