I walk on my toes because My mother walks on her heels But I'm beginning to understand Understand the way that she feels Frozen water on the ground Is a means to the end Only in the fall is relief found On the way down she grabs my hand And during those seconds of weightlessness She can forget it all All of those sad thoughts Over which she obsesses She is in the moment as she falls I'm spinning on the floor again My guts spilled onto the street Scraping knees and elbows on cement Sharp stones they stab my bare feet Went swimming naked in the Grand River water burns my face I'm yelling pleading to my friends Just let me float away And during those seconds of weightlessness I can forget it all I look up at the stars Let the water take me I am in the moment as I fall I needed you so far away You pull me in but never stay This distance is your only way To stay together you must escape We're not so different after all I reach for you you reach me as we fall