Explorers (Album Version)

This old mountainside where we used to reside

Is slowly recalling the things we discovered inside

Oh the crystal caves

We shed both our jackets and I hammered brackets

From old metal chairs to the walls for a crude set of stairs

To lead us down

And you tied a rope to the steepening slope

A jerry-rigged harness so we could descend in the dark

But the tide came in

And we found ourselves in the sea

Deep underwater we both found that we could still breathe

So we spent the day submerged

And we swam the evening away

The water was clear like the pure atmosphere

As we kicked and fluttered through caverns all cluttered with age

In the afterglow

We swam hand in hand over white satin sand

And you left a ribbon to honor the pale gibbon moon

But that was years ago

And we never came up for air down there

We can go anywhere

The old world was dying while we took off flying

Like peregrine falcons beneath the transparent blue waves

Far below the surf

And we spent the hours with submarine flowers

I knew I'd remember that day in November as we felt alive again

'Cause we found ourselves in the sea

Deep underwater we both found that we could still breathe

So we spent the day submerged

And we swam the evening away

We swam the evening away