Mark Northfield - Our Father lyrics

How wide the river that flows before us It insinuates words we struggle to read We shoulder the ache and hope for release Shoulder the hope and ache to belong Attempting to stand still centre stream How sweetly naive to want to hold hands Swept off our feet we all but drowned Mesmerised by the refraction of love Our father Our father Who art thou Life lying deep someplace within The undeniable ecstasy of breath We haul ourselves back to respective sides All the stronger and none the wiser Our father Our father Our father Who art thou