on a day just like this on the ocean four years ago now the wind was too strong the waves were too big three young men were thrown of the bow and i was at home when they were fighting towards mother earth and two of them died only twenty years after their birth in october oh and the last of the three was left hopelessly crying for help the wind was screaming but the silence was stronger as he stood with his feet in the kelp the sun was still up but it was night time when i heard who died i only knew eric cause one time he gave me a ride in october oh now i didn t know him well but i liked him he was one of those guys that everyone knew either liked him or not cause there were no sign of lies in his eyes i was seventeen years old the last time he spoke to me now i m twenty one and i m older than he ll ever be in october oh my father is his mothers cousin so that makes us kin i remember those family dinners and the old peoples funerals again and again so strange looking round in the crowd when he wouldn t be found oh the look on the face of his brother when they lowered him down in october oh october is the best turns roads into beautiful trails the rime on the windows the leaves on your coat the frost on the cars and the rails still out on the ocean those memories are bringing me down but i ve heard there s a symphony playing you to sleep when you drown october again and again