Lyrics for Of the Depths

1 - Taste

I was eighteen that September. You and I were still together
Least as far as I can remember…
We had been partners from my youth. Said we would be come what may.

We were fine and, things were workin’, and I’d visit you on the weekends
But for the big wide world I was thristin’
You said “how ‘bout we settle down?”, I said, “I might someday.”

See I was achin’, for the big thing, like the lights and the crowd and the cheerin’
And the thought of regret I was fearin’
I knew you’d always have my back, so I turned and lead the way!

REFRAIN
But you never left my side, you never tired of waiting for me to come around.
(1) Even when I took the lead, you didn’t beg you din’t plead, when you were hurt you didn’t make a single sound (but when )…
(2) Even when I ‘gan to stray, a-try’n to pave my own way you walked along down every road that I went down (but when )…
(3) And it’s all so plain to see, all I thought that I could be is nothing, nothing , nothing next to what I found in you…

you gave me a taste of you, I tasted something more.

(3) you gave me a taste of you, and I’m comin’ back for more. you gave me a taste of you, an’ that’s all there ain’t no more.

Soon after I was racin’. All the signs that i read said to hasten
Said you couldn’t be complacent
Sometimes I made those lofty goals, sometimes they slipped away.

But iof i caught them, they would vanish, if I fell too short I was famished
and the thought-a givin’ up I would banish
And every time I’d call you up, you didn’t have too much to say

So I called less, I didn’t feel pressed. I didn’t think of you in the darkness
still nothing left me wantless
And though I trembled in the night, i couldn’t see i was afraid

=====(To refrain)(2)

Out-a luck an’ I was stuck in the swamp, in the quagmire muck an’
when they asked what was wrong I’d say, “nothing.”
How could I say I had no strength to loosen up my hold?

Tryied a-swimmin', but I was strugglin’, and a wave sent me into the deep end
Only knew how to float like a deadman
And both the fists I’d clenched to have had me sinkin’ like a stone

I was spoutin’, I was drownin’, but no-one could hear me a-shoutin’
no sound from my mouth came a soundin’
So from the dpeth I cried for you, who had left me on my own.

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Well, i woke up on the surface, on the grass with my heart like a furnace
there was someone who’d done me the service
who saw my tears float to the top, and who dove to take my hand

In an instant, then I knew it, it was you you alone who had done it
you had never left for a minute.
Youi breathed your breath into my lungs when I was safe on land

You put your face right to my face, and your arms wrapped around me like a lace
and you beauty gave me a purpose
You poured a radiant smile on me, and I didn’t want to stand.

=====(To refrain)(3)

Credits
Jacinta Nguyen- Piano, background vocals
Vivian Stoltz - Cello
Joseph Lundsten - Bass Guitar
Isaiah Lippert - Lead vocals, guitar, Electric Guitar, Percussion

Written by Isaiah Lippert