Take a cupful from your hand

Wait for forty days

Make a river through the sand

'Til you're called by a secret name

And the weight of the water has brought me back to this

Just leave me to the river

Let it cleanse my face

I have no power to ward it

Like the baptism of the earth

And the weight of the water has brought me back to this

And the step where you stood

As I bleed from the wound

How I cower to that weight

Still I'll make this water home