For the people who all came before To their ghosts and all that they saw And lost forever now And forevermore If you had the breath for speech How we could learn How you could teach us What we will never know At the price of our souls So teach me this day how to swim And I confess to you all of my sins From childhood living To the day that it begins So open my eyes and I see The morning light in the trees Do you hear me sister breathe From this sickness please So as I wake up a different man In a world I don't understand Would you just accept me For who I am As I feel the sun on my skin I hear a voice from within And it comes to me again and again So teach me this day how to swim And I confess to you all of my sins From childhood living To the day that it begins So open my eyes and I see The morning light in the trees Do you hear me sister breathe From my sickness please An old man without a name Hangs his head and looks on in shame To the dreams he had Still wants all the same To the memories in his head Of all the things that he never said To another life he would carry then So teach me this day how to swim And I confess to you all of my sins From childhood living To the day that it begins So open my eyes and I see The morning light in the trees Do you hear me sister breathe From my sickness please