Flotsam And Jetsam

Peter Gabriel · Revisited [1992]

Doing nothing stuck in the mud

Just pumping the blood

The water level's getting low

Something ugly's going to show



If I could only touch you

I guess you'd be alarmed

If only I could touch you

I don't mean you no harm



If only I could touch you

like the wind can touch the sail

If only I could touch you, darling

now that words have failed

Oh, Flotsam still afloat

Oh, Jetsam thrown out of the boat



Oh love, my love

nothing here is what it seems



We both know it

Christ! you show it

Oh, oh my love