The Wheel

I bet you didn't know that the sun took a shine water
 She drinks up a bit but floats it up to the sky
 Now what she takes from our lake
 Will make her a storm cloud that rumbles and tumbles rain
 From up high, high, high
 It's a wheel, Winnie
 This journey of ours
 Sun to lake to cloud that showers rain back to the lake below
 And you'll ride that wheel wherever you go
 Not a minute or moment is the same
 The wheel keeps you guessing
 And everything around you is along for the ride
 The pond, the bullfrogs, the birch trees, and hound dogs plus people, all people ebb and flow
 With the tide, tide, tide
 It's a wheel, Winnie
 A ripple in water
 Girl to wife to mother to daughter
 Like all your kinfolk
 Come and gone
 Can't stop growing, growing, changing then moving on
 Once you drop an anchor, a boat gets stuck and it could stay forever
 Just floating on top
 Watching life pass it by, just floating up top
 Show me how to climb back on the wheel
 I'd be there slick as a slingshot
 Prepare to get off at the end
 And share with someone my spot
 You can't have living without dying
 So you can't call this living what we got
 We just are, we just be
 No before, no beyond
 A rowboat anchored in the middle of a pond
 Don't be afraid of death, Winnie
 Be afraid of not being truly alive
 You don't need to live forever
 You just need to live
 Do you understand?
 It's a wheel (it's a wheel)
 A ripple in water
 Girl to wife to mother to daughter
 Like all your kinfolk
 Come and gone
 It's a wheel (it's a wheel)
 A circle in motion
 Can't stop growing, growing, changing and moving on
 Can't stop growing, growing, changing then moving on