BUDDY BREATHING

Mike Harding

Buddy-Breathing, sharing air
Deep-sea diving, taking care
Just make one mistake and you’ll be drowned,
Behind the mask, below the surface
Diving through uncharted waters
Going where no footprints can be found.

Choose the surface, play it safe
Or take a chance beneath the waves
The ripples spread and fade where you went down.

Buddy-Breathing, brave the water
Make no assumptions, trust your partner
When words don’t work, you’ll learn to read the signs,
Conditions change, the tide advances
Never take this life for granted
From far below you won’t know sea from sky.

Declare intentions when you dive
Indifferent water will drown your cries
Buddy-Breathing, share that vital line.

Buddy-Breathing, sharing air
Deep-sea diving, taking care
Just make one mistake and you’ll be drowned,
Diving deep down into love
No marker on the sea above
Going where no footprints can be found
The ripples spread and fade where you went down
The ripples spread and fade ……………

My new favourite song, from the singing of Kiwis, Mike Harding and Chris Priestley! :)
Listen here to Mike, with Chris on harmony, from April, 2011 in NZ : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6JQvH0n2to

I like these guys and here is a compilation of some of their songs from that 2011 tour of South Island, called “Kiwi Connections” where they showcased EnZed songwriters :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIqf0gObvyA

[As regards scuba diving, I enjoyed this activity when young and fit but gave it up after my first (daytime) dive with a group in Darwin Harbour – where I could not see my hand in front of me : JEEEZUZ.
Not sure whether the dive companies still do that, considering the increases in the croc populations …..
But just before I arrived, in 1983, Tim Proctor’s Fannie Bay Dive Shop team attempted a Guinness Book of Records, record-breaking attempt of an underwater crossing from Darwin to Mandorah – driving a Toyota Landcruiser :
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-18/how-a-car-drove-across-darwin-harbour-35-years-ago/10009608   ]


R-J