Birth and Death

Birth and Death
 *** This song is about a friend who committed suicide by leaping off a bridge into a river in 2002, a few days before her birthday. She left a husband and baby girl behind. ***
 Sunlight flares on the liquid sky
 My bridge has burnt away
 Now too late to change my mind
 I've drank too much of this bitter wine
 Here all is silent and calm
 I no longer hear the call
 Another beginning, another end
 I didn't want this to happen again
 A hole that the rain can not fill
 The world flows in but its empty still
 Secrets hide in the nothingness
 Secrets never to be confessed
 Wind and ash and rust
 Change everything to dust
 My destiny descends on me
 Now I rush to rejoin the sea
 River carry me
 Just like the autumn leaves
 At least so near the end
 River my final friend
 So many things I'll never be
 Now I rush to rejoin the sea