National Public Radio (USA) did a nice feature tonight on Pat Humphries's song "Swimming to the Other Side." If you go to the NPR website, you can read an essay by producer Marika Partridge on the song, click to listen to the radio feature via Real Audio, or click to listen to three versions of the song (two by Pat Humphries and one by Lui Collins with a nice descant).

The lyrics, taken from http://gamgee.acad.emich.edu/~roth/SONGS/swimming.html, but corrected on listening to the original:

Chorus:  (same melody as verse)

We are living 'neath the great Big Dipper
We are washed by the very same rain
We are swimming in the stream together
Some in power, some in pain
We can worship this ground we walk on
Cherishing the beings that we live beside
Loving spirits will live forever
We're all swimming to the other side.

I am alone, and I am searching, hungering for answers in my time
I am balanced at the brink of wisdom, I'm impatient to receive a sign
I move forward with my senses open, imperfection it be my crime
In humility I will listen, we're all swimming to the other side

On this journey through thoughts and feelings, finding intuition: my head, my heart
I am gathering the tools together, I'm preparing to do my part
All of those who have come before me, band together and be my guide
Loving lessons that I will follow, we're all swimming to the other side

When we get there we'll discover, all of the gifts we've been given to share
Have been with us since life's beginning and we never noticed they were there
We can balance at the brink of wisdom, never recognizing that we've arrived
Loving spirits will live forever, we're all swimming to the other side

--Charlie Baum