Sometimes life feels like an ocean,
cruel and far too cold to mention.
Though you raise a great commotion - still no-one
pays you attention
There's no sail on the horizon,
when the shark-fins gather near,
you watch your chances of surviving scuppered
-
(sink, then disappear),
[CHORUS:]
All I need, all you need, all we need, is something to cling to.
(Watch your
chances disappear when the shark-fins gather near),
All I need, all you need, all we need, is something to cling to.
As your
'fair-weather-friends' stand waving,
from the comfort of their yacht,
(it's strange how when you needed saving
they conveniently
forgot).
The countless times you've stopped them sinking,
fought to keep their lives afloat,
and hauled them upwards, (without
thinking).
to the safety of your boat.
[CHORUS:]
AIl I need, all you need, all we need, is something to cling
to
(Fight to keep your life afloat - far from the safety of your boat)
All I need, all you need, all we need, is something to cling
to
So tired and numb - your limbs now weaken
and you slowly start to wonder;
Should I not admit Im beaten,
let these
waters drag me under?
Feel a peace and calm descending,
ceasing fears, and cares, and crying.
Knowing that your life is
ending,
reconcile yourself to dying.
Then as if from out of nowhere.
(and just when you least expected).
floats a single
piece of driftwood - by some unseen force directed
It's a gift life often brings you.
when you thought all hope long
gone.
sometimes a single dream to cling to.
gives you strength to carry on.
It seems the wisest words that I know,
(three
which some dead scholar wrote)
are simply these: - "Dum spiro spero"
meaning; "WHILE I BREATHE I HOPE".
[CHORUS:]
All
I need. all you need, all we need, is something to cling to,
(The wisest words man ever wrote are simply "While I breathe I
hope").
All i need, all you need, all we need, is something to cling to.