When These Mountains Were the Seashore G When these mountains were the seashore C When this desert was the ocean floor G D7 e We would swim beneath the star-filled sky C G D7 We were lovely fish alone in the night G Before the cities met the heavens C I mean way way back before then G D7 e We would sing as if it were a prayer C G D7 G We were lovely fish who dreamed of the air C G D7 G Before clocks kept track of the time C G D7 G When day led gracefully into the night C G a G Before two fish that dreamed to fly C D7 e D7 G Created their sadness and new reasons to cry G When the mountains were a seashore C And this desert was the ocean floor G D7 e You and I were not born yet C G D7 It’s too long ago now even to forget G When the blue sky found its courage C To love and raise a new ridge G D7 e Back when life was simply meant to be C G D7 G Our love and care alone in the sea C G D7 Before clocks kept track of the time C G D G When day led gracefully into the night C G a G Before two fish that dreamed to fly C D7 e D7 G Got suspicious of the miracle and asked themselves why BRIDGE G When we looked up through the water C At time and space and wonder G D7 What it might be like to live up there C G D7 G To leave our fins and gills for the air C G D7 G Before clocks kept track of the time C G D7 G Before the poems began to rhyme C G a G Before two simple fish even learned to cry C D7 e D7 G Got suspicious of their love and asked each other why