Lyrics

We Were There
Tim Bays/James Nihan
© 1995 In Cahoots Music, EMI Music/REO Global Entertainment
Administered by EMI April Music (ASCAP)

Sun in the sky like a big copper ladle
Pouring honey down the river bank
An old canoe, rocking like a cradle
So full of love that it almost sank
You smiled a sunburned smile and asked where we were bound
And looking back I see that like no place I'd ever found

By the water's edge I found a great blue heron's feather
And I put it in your raven hair
And in the dappled sunlight we lay down together
Holding each other like hands in prayer
Without a thought for what lay up around the bend
We didn't have to try to find that rainbow's end
We were there

Bridge
Every now and then we drift apart
Sometimes we're neither kind nor fair
But I know that we can always find that place inside our hearts
Cause once...we were there

I just think of that sun like a big copper ladle
Pouring honey down the river bank
And that old canoe, rocking like a cradle
So full of love it almost sank