A Life Preserved Songtext
von Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil

Bobbing for air, I′m back again
A perfect ten of a dive without a pool
A perfect fool too slow to know
His wind has been knocked out till I'm gasping

Bobbing for air, been up and down
The once renown, angling for another act
Another tactical advance to who knows where
You found me there, I heard you there

Calling me out of the shallows of my world
Called to something graceful, something true
Gratitude′s too cheap a word for all you've reassembled
From a spirit broken and unnerved
A life preserved
A life preserved

Bobbing for air, I've been atoned
Creation groaned to lift me as I drowned
And set my feet up on the mound of rock you crushed for me
A place to stand, whisper a command


Calling me out of the shallows of my world
Called to something graceful, something true
Gratitude′s too cheap a word for all you′ve reassembled
From a spirit broken and unnerved
A life preserved

Bobbing for air, I have been served
A life preserved after all I'd cast away
You tipped the grayscale till the scales fell back to earth
And I saw colors, I heard a shout

Bobbing for air

Calling me out of the shallows of my world
Called to something graceful, something true
Gratitude′s too cheap a word for all you've reassembled
From a spirit broken and unnerved
A life preserved

Calling me out of the shallows of my world
Called to something graceful, something true
Gratitude′s too cheap a word for all you've reassembled
From a spirit broken and unnerved
A life preserved