When the wind comes across the water I could stand alone
When the wind comes across the water I can go back home
But the wind came across the water, I'm too slow again
Now I'm sitting beside the water without a single friend
So now I'll spend another night, cursing the one who gave me life
And wondering why it's worth the fight to go another day alive
There's a man coming up to the water He looks me in the eye
I have been thirty eight years at the water and he dares to ask me why
I have no one help me to water, there are too many steps to climb
He turned me away from the water, and he put his hand in mine
He said get up, take your bed and walk and my legs started shaking and I couldn't talk
Through the tears in my eyes I watched my legs getting stronger
And I rose for the first time and I shouted aloud and I jumped up high
And I danced on the steps by the pool where my life had been squandered
When I turned, he was gone, but my legs are sturdy and strong, And I know
I am healed but not by the water