
Date of issue: 22.05.2008
Record label: Orange Twin
Song language: English
Motion In the Ocean |
It seems that we are clams inside our shells |
Side by side on rocks we feel the tide as the sea contracts and swells |
Pearls grow from the pain inside we often know so well |
So languageless, emotionless we must now find |
Some way to tell the ocean not to worry |
Ultimately all, predictably, is well |
Oh fisherman, it seems you’ve lost your net |
Furthermore, it seems you’re sinking, do not waste time with regret |
Most of the world is covered in that stuff which constitutes your sweat |
With which your body’s, for a long time now, been marginally wet |
I would tell you but I’m not so good with words |
Language makes a simple feeling seem oh so absurd |
Anyway, my songs about contentment so far always end in verbs |
Like «drive», or «run», or «go to sleep, the damage has been done» |
Life’s not made up of things that must be lost or won |
But you can live that way if that’s what you call fun |
Oh karma chameleon |
Are you in tune to the voice that makes that noise saying your work here is |
done? |
And do you dream at night of thoughts inside you’ll never tell no one |
Unless you find some way to mask them in some sarcastic pun? |
And oh, misguided secret angel on the run |
What was so wrong with taking your wings off, a day of working done |
In your dreams of hell, do you have endless chores or are you banished to |
boredom? |
Now you can’t decide if you believe in either one |
You can’t decide if you believe in either one |
You’ll not know until you’ve tried, and so you can’t decide |
You can’t decide if you believe in either one |
Name | Year |
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Grady and Dubose | 2010 |
Not the Night Wind | 2020 |
Will We | 2008 |
Voices Echo Down Thee Halls (For Jared) | 2008 |
Everything You Ever Hoped or Worked for | 2008 |
Tambourine -N- Thyme | 2008 |
Stop and Smell Thee Roses | 2008 |
Less Than the Air (By Dave Dondero) | 2008 |
Broken Cityscapes | 2008 |
The Idea That Everything Could Possibly Ever Be Said (For Patrick) | 2008 |
Window | 2017 |
T.V. Song | 2017 |
Tacoma Center 1600 | 2017 |
Nightlights II | 2017 |
Explained Away | 2017 |
Photos from When We Were Young | 2017 |
Mississippi Swells | 2017 |
Almost Know Your Name | 2017 |
Nightlights I | 2017 |
Bright Cloud | 2017 |