Kevin's Watch

sgt.null wrote:

Aw, yeah!

Wyldewode wrote:

Don't pretend you're sorry
I know you're not
You know you got the power
To make me weak inside
Girl you leave me breathless
But it's okay 'cause
You are my survival
Now hear me say
I can't imagine life
Without your love
Even forever don't seem
Like long enough

'Cause everytime I breathe
I take you in
And my heart beats again
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love
Everytime I try to rise above
I'm swept away by love
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love

Maybe I'm a drifter
Late at night
'Cause I long for the safety
Of flowing freely
In your arms
I don't need another life line
It's not for me
'Cause only you can save me
Oh can't you see
I can't imagine life
Without your love
And even forever don't seem
Like long enough

'Cause everytime I breathe
I take you in
And my heart beats again
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love
Everytime I try to rise above
I'm swept away by love
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love

Go on and pull me under
Cover me with dreams, yeah
Love me mouth to mouth now
You know I can't resist
'Cause you're the air
That I breathe

Everytime I breathe
I take you in
And my heart beats again
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love
Everytime I try to rise above
I'm swept away by love
And baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning your love

Baby I can't help it
Keep me drowning
In your love
I keep drowning
In your love
Baby I can't help it
Can't help it no, no

'Cause everytime I breathe
I take you in
And my heart beats again
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love
Everytime I try to rise above
I'm swept away by love
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love

And are you just waving or drowning?
It's so hard to tell when you're so far away.

Not Waving But Drowning
Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.

Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he's dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.

Fabulous poem by Stevie Smith. . . thanks for making me think of it, Caglio!

When I am grown to a man's estate,
I shall be very proud and great,
And tell the other girls and boys,
Not to meddle with my toys!

R.L.S.

Fictional

Aegeus, father of the hero Theseus, committed suicide by jumping into the sea for believing his son dead; the sea was named after him and today is known by Aegean Sea

Paul et Virginie, from the novel of the same name, died drowned in a shipwreck

Icarus, son of Daedalus; escaped with his father using artificial wings; flew too near the sun and wings fell off; drowned in what is today called the Icarian Sea

Jason Voorhees, the living-dead, masked serial killer of the Friday the 13th films, was originally a boy who drowned in a summer camp

Primula Brandybuck and Drogo Baggins, the parents of Tolkien's character Frodo Baggins of The Lord of the Rings

Ophelia in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet

Adam and Barbara Maitland, the main characters in the film Beetlejuice, drowned when they crashed their car off a covered bridge.

Yailee Ming Deception Point, drowned when he fell into a meteorite extraction pit, in the Arctic.

Buffy drowned by the hand of the Master, in the episode Prophecy Girl, the finale of the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Shisui Uchiha drowned in a river at the hands of his best friend, Itachi Uchiha, in the anime Naruto.

Charlie Pace drowned in the season 3 finale of Lost.

Javert from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables commits suicide by throwing himself off a bridge into the Seine.

Dr. Howard Kramer from Hollow Man, drowned by Sebastian Caine

Ivan "Shyboy" Melgarejo of Whittier. drowned at age 17.

I almost drown once. It's not as much fun as you might think.

Wyldewode wrote: Fabulous poem by Stevie Smith. . . thanks for making me think of it, Caglio!

Actually, I was quoting from Kirsty MacColl. However, I didn't use the quotey box.

Wyldewode wrote:I almost drown once. It's not as much fun as you might think.

happened to me. my brother pushed me into the deep end of the pool. my head hit the ladder and blacked out. came to with the lifeguard telling me. "if you can't swim, stay in the shallow end." I was five or six at the time.

I don't remember how old I was, but toddler-ish. We were visiting relatives in Maine. I followed my teenaged cousin into the surf. Next thing I remember, I was flat on my back on the beach, staring up at the sky. Must've blocked out the part where the wave took me under.

for aliantha

Oh, I've seen plenty of waves since then; I grew up 5 blocks from Lake Michigan. I just don't remember that specific one. Which is probably a blessing, considering.

I think we killed the thread.

Quack?

I got sucked into an undertow once. That was the second scariest thing in my life.

1st then?