take me down to the water and wake all the air around me take me down and show me everything that i should see in an instant i would believe just your touch could do the waking just your words could lift the aching but i don't know i don't know mary you look like heaven in your white dress on the alter of my chest mary they say your siren is the only thing to get me through this in an instant i would believe just your touch could do the waking just your words could lift the aching but i don't know i don't know sometimes its too apparent the things that you can't grasp when you make a deal with the devil you think you can take it back if you showed me angel wings would i look at you and see i don't know what i believe mary, i don't know why you ever brought me down this deep mary, can you hear this? it may be my only plea take me down to the water and wake all the air around me