Dead Ocean

(album: Prisoners - 2012)

An Ocean waves hello

Feathers decorate the air
And sleeping giants approach
An absolute nightmare – not having footing to flee
Suspended animation
Face to face with the majesty
Grotesque interest drew you near
But sorrow and awe keep you here

The Ocean suicides

Here come the leeches gathering around their host
Hard to believe it, arterial seacoast
King of carcass, I'll drown in is death

Grotesque interest drew you near the towering monument
Sorrow and awe keep you here (while) the Ocean breaks
Flesh weighs more than atmosphere – what's keeping them afloat?
(Still you) Still you stare, waiting for the shipwrecks and ghosts

The moon mocks you with a knowing grin

Or, is that the lure of a distant angler fish?
Was your role fulfilled? Was that it?
Are you face up or face down?
Cardinal points are semantics
Geometry is religion for mathematics

The womb that birthed us keep us close
Rebellious organs give up early, abandoning ship
The air feels hydrogen-heavy
Your elements are individualizing (individualizing)

Red algae pours across the panorama
Colored film fills your eyes
(Colors) Matching the bed expanding beneath you
With every once you lose
You forget you ever feared you're physically free

One who survives mass suicide
Gather the masses to blindly follow
Intonations camouflage obvious idiocy

Approachable outside to welcome them in
Black holes set in spin
A resource more valuable than we expect
Wrangled together to redirect
I've been around this place before
I recognize the heavy doors
Opening on the entrance way
Molding a populace out of clay
Stuck in the earth, we'll stay