Approaching Carmel Lyrics

Where the windblown waves come prisming light from the sun

To break into spray on the rocks underneath Highway One

A thousand forces and more on that unpatterned shore

Form each wave into a shape never seen before

Though its current form melts the shore is itself and it is nothing else

Is that true of myself?

Oh I'm approaching Carmel Breath in and breath out with the ocean's ebb and swell

I have one foot one Earth I am held over Hell I'm approaching Carmel

As my cells grow and die somehow I remain "I"

Though its hard to defend I don't believe that's a lie

It doesn't come easily or at least not to me

To explain how the changing sea remains the sea

And its equally strange how something can change

when each atom's the same and none rearranged

Oh I'm approaching Carmel Breath in and breath out with the ocean's ebb and swell

I have one foot one Earth I am held over Hell I'm approaching Carmel

And its equally strange how something can change

when each atom's the same and yet I have changed

I'm approaching Carmel