There was blue green clay   On the banks that day   As we left the world behind      It was upstream then   Like it's upstream now   In this livelong outside      There's a trestle across the water   Like my hands across that year   For a moment the green was mine      And our footsteps worn   From years of rain   And it held my hand   Like it holds my name      And my childhood born   And the difference   I let the water wash away   The water washed away      I'm bruised and red   From the pain of rock   Stepping stones until I fall      Oh, like daggers when I land   A roman candle in my hand   Was a weapon to the outside      Oh, I walked in my father's wake   I prayed for a God to take   The endlessness from those shores      And our footsteps worn   From years of rain   And he held my hand then   Like it holds my name      And my childhood born   And the difference   I let the water wash away   Let the water wash away      Let the water wash away   The water washed away   Let the water wash away   Let the water take it all, all away      No sacred trails   Near the riverside left   To these other souls with no love or no hate      Now they're bleeding this everything   Soiling the brilliant green   And I'm drowning for the water's sake      Our footsteps worn   From years of rain   And he held my hand   Like it holds my name      My childhood born   And the difference   I let the water wash away   Let the water wash away      Let the water wash away   Let the water wash away   The water washed away   Washed it all, the water washed it all away      I let the water wash away   Let the water wash away   The water washed away   Washed it all, the water washed it all away      Washed it all away   The water washed away, away   The water washed away   And take it all away, all away      There was blue green clay   On the banks that day   As we left the world behind