I'll Jump

When I was a kid
 Just a skinny kid
 We would summer at the shore
 Since I was afraid
 I only would wade to waist high and nothing more
 Never over my head
 But choosing instead
 To see the bottom below
 I was safe I was sound
 Feet on the ground
 No threat from the undertow
 But one day this boy who was older
 Threw me over his sunburnt shoulder
 And to my surprise and my shock
 Tossed me off of the end of the dock
 And I swam
 Fear replaced with the thilling taste
 I would not soon forgot
 What a crime to waste more time
 Than never get wet
 So I vowed to the blue skies above
 Next time I wont need a shove
 I'll jump
 I'll jump
 When I was 16, barely just 16
 My great uncle came to town
 A gourmet of note who researched a cookbook of some renound
 There was page after page
 Of saffron and sage
 The spice of a life he had led
 Tales of places he'd seen
 Sampled cuisine would fill up my teenaged head
 So that June he made a suggestion
 In the form of a simple question
 Would I like to go sail the seas
 Feast in trinidad, dine in Beliz
 I said yes
 Suitcase packed yet still I lacked
 The nerve to explore
 Fear prevailed
 His ship set sail
 But I stayed on shore
 I had forgotten the lesson once learned
 Next time if the chance returned
 I'd jump
 Better safe than sorry
 Is no way to play the game
 It's rather sorry that safe leads to nothing
 But more of the same
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 So here I am now
 This is me right now
 Perched upon this hotel bed
 My only desire
 To somehow aquire
 A blueprint for what's ahead
 I could keep my routine
 A life that's serene
 With comforting guarentees
 Or go out on a limb
 And take a swim
 In deep and unchared seas
 I have learned that life is quite fleeting
 And mistakes waste your time repeating
 Since the gain could outweigh the harm
 And we all know that three times the charm
 I will jump
 Fear replored I will jump on board
 And go for the ride
 I'll be strong and if I'm wrong
 At least I'll have tried
 Life is meant to be lived on the edge
 Ths time I wont fear the ledge
 I'll jump
 I'll jump
 I'll Jump