Lyrics

Taken by the words whispered of a land out there,
Beyond the ocean fair
Called upon by God then left the life of prayer,
Enchanted by the dare

Oh a vision only you could see,
A journey only luck could bring,
A calling only you did hear

Trailed by your failures and pockets not your own,
Onwards you did go
To make you stand in winter on a shoreline cold and bare,
To build her and prepare

Oh you hacked her from the trees on the spot,
Her rustic glory met the springtime thaw,
When you slipped her home past the rocks

Upstream toward a dream,
So young though she may seem,
Tall and free on the inland sea,
Now a whisper from the deep

A paradise of bounty mirrored on her waters fresh,
Oh Huron's rolling crest
Her gales showed no mercy on the fervid dreams of men,
At the summer's end,

Oh another winter marches on
Ship and crew lost for months,
You scoured the frozen earth to find but none

Upstream toward a dream,
So young though she may seem,
Tall and free on the inland sea,
Now a whisper from the deep

Now I dive below and I see some old remains,
They whispered me your name
"The Griffon still lives on where the light begins to fade",
The endless blue cascade

And the lighthouse danced so red in the night,
As I scan the horizon line,
For to chance her ghost sail on by

Upstream toward a dream,
So young though she may seem,
Tall and free on the inland sea,
Now a whisper from the deep