From the recording How All This Will Change
So Far Down is based on two different perspectives, one looks at the hardship, challenge and disappointment that is inherent in life. The second perspective focuses on the encouragement and support that can come from all around us to help us through the journey.
Lyrics
So Far Down
There’s a tin can flim-flam superman knocking on your door tonight
He’s got a briefcase full of pieces of your monochrome jigsaw life
There’s a sunflower in the city leaning for a piece of light
But the steel and glass are kicking it’s ass so it turns in to the night
It’s OK, open your eyes, it’s not what you think, you’re not so far down
It’s OK, open your eyes, you’re not so far down
There’s a weather worn woman wandering under a dusty desert sky
Her water flows for all the snakes and vultures but her lips are sealed and dry
There’s a songbird on the rooftop, waiting for a sign
‘Cause in a deep place he remembers when this was all a field of light.
It’s OK, open your eyes, you’re not so far down
It’s OK, open your eyes, you’re not so far down
There’s a web long in the making, it's ready for the fly
There’s a blackbird in the hedgerow, you can tell just from his eyes
There’s a long road disappearing into a heavy granite sky
There’s quiet high plain meadow just waiting to tell us why
There’s an old man crossing Rampart under a craven crescent moon
His eyes still shine but his body bends, he knows it’s coming soon
There’s a star-eyed girl in a broken town, lookin’ out through a cloudy pane
She somehow knows what everybody needs and how all this will change
It’s OK, open your eyes, you’re not so far down
It’s OK, open your eyes, it’s not what you think, you’re not so far down