I was in an ocean on a mercury mixture Filling my lungs, completely ruined You were something mythical, never imaginable Always desirable, softer than noon I somehow trusted my desires again Knowing their peace was like a restless child I somehow trusted the stillness of a year Like the stillness of ripples or the stillness of light
And by now all purpose and thought has dissolved in salt Just to scale your invisible skin Hiding beneath the waves and smiles and pleasant hand gestures Was the dark figure forming beneath the boat I was in
As the evening makes her closing remarks I’m frightened by the thought of you in another hand I’ll gather all the coins from my dresser drawer To take you to this forever foreign land Outside it’s a furnace but I’ll keep you in the bathtub I’ll you ever clutching the corners of my mouth I’ll gather all the coins the ones I’m desperately counting on And I’ll be there waiting with my will or without
And by now our purpose and thought has dissolved in salt It’s not dark, just remarkably dim Hiding from the town between some trees watching our house burning And dark figures forming around me and within
As the evening makes her closing remarks We sat a while recollecting Sunday drives As the evening makes her closing remarks We sat a while, yeah we sat and we talked