Shlammin’ Salmon

Downstream

From the colossal current

Redeemed

Only by struggling through it

So hard to ascend

When overextended

It’s too late to turn

Once you have spurned

Where you started from

To get to where you’re going

You’re shedding your skin

A path for your kin to follow

Bits to swallow

Hope it doesn’t make them sick

Keep your shape

Until they find their way

Fast approaching self-reliance

Unbound, will they choose defiance?

‘Cause barring self-defeat, they’re damned to repeat

The same miracle, miracle, miracle

Picked clean

Yet marrow wastes beneath the bone

Too keen

To struggle further on their own

Fast approaching self-reliance

But now they choose defiance

And barring self-defeat, they’re damned to repeat

The same miracle, miracle, miracle

And they could only be redeemed

By drifting out to sea

Far away from the stream that calls out

Endlessly

They could only be redeemed

By drifting out to sea

So far away from the steam that calls out

Endlessly