Head Under Water

The subject of "Digger" is implicit in the title, a word loaded with metaphoric irony.  It is the hero, the masculine principle, overwhelmed by the feminine, by nature herself, who must somehow strive to do the impossible, even if it drowns him.  

Man - that is - men have been on a ten thousand year trajectory to conquer the earth, even nature.  Ten thousand years of conflict and war has been the result, with a few decades of relative peace.  Even then, the religions, laws, social morés men have set up have finally reached a tipping point in the face of radical climate change.  The metaphor of the "hero" being drowned by the flood even as he attempts to "save the day" is a universal statement about our current predicament.  

Head Under Water

Lord I’m drowning,
twenty feet of flood.
I’m sinking fast.
I’m drinkin’ mud.
I’m drownin’ in a river
as vast as pain.
The shaking fury
of a hurricane.

Head under water.
Gotta find you, 
I gotta find you.

I lost my lady
in the gulf stream storm.
I can the smell the sweat
on the dress she wore.

She was scared and screamin'.
She was naked too.
Current pulled her under.
Why not me? Why you?
The end is comin’.
Lord, it’s comin’ true.

Head under water.
Gotta find you, 
I gotta find you.

I’ll search the oceans.
I’ll circle the air,
tho’ th’ earth is crazy,
trouble everywhere.
I’ll find my baby.
Yes, I’m on my way
to the rescue,
to save the day.

Head under Water
Gotta find you 
I gotta find you.

Copyright © 2005, 2014 by David Larstein, all rights reserved

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