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