Lyrics Earth - We Are Temporary

Earth

Clawed and teeming wildlife
My body floating in a marshland
Swimming, circling round my feet
Water-bugs and cranes are nestling
Feel the anaerobic cells
Floating, flexing in the reeds
Smell the leaves and burning hair
Grind red earth into my heart
You were my first pioneer
Called me back to roof our home with skin
Building ditches and canals
Leaving nothing but the summer wind
A vision blind before the veil
Copper, golden eyes and Bordeaux lips
Stealing back my heart and then
Eating what is left of yours
Fingers grasping for the tin
Faceless and anonymous
The grappling hook is anchored deep
Sticking to my pulpy, pulsing muscle
I stagger through the blood red sands
Barely breathing lunges burn up with air
Pressing ribs calibrate
The friction and the fusion
Our love springs deep and dark
Witness to the sticks and twigs and dust