Drowning on Dry Land
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Liner Notes:
based on a true story
Lyrics:
feel i grew up on a different planet
where the sun was somehow closer
waves of light like lilies spreading
like i grew up underwater
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way down in the dim, the trees could swim
the mountains moved in passing breeze
pastures ate their flocks and giants watched
from a house below dark weeds
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once my grand-eel told me
there's a land above
with fish that float their own seas
that you cannot touch or drink
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where the sun was somehow closer
waves of light like lilies spreading
it's a different kind of ocean
than you've ever seen, grand-daughter
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i come up to see
singing songs of wonder
the notes slid off my tongue
in the world of thunder
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seeing smoke, hear pounding
after silent water
in the air it's stifling
my lungs hurt for water
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in the clashing crying
i see giants fighting
i see pastures dying
in the air i'm drowning
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get me back please help me
no one hears my whisper
take me to cool water
in the air i'm drowning
i can't breathe
i can't breathe
i can't breathe
i can't
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feel i grew up on a different planet
where the sun was somehow closer
waves of light like lilies spreading
like i grew up breathing underwater
i can't i can't i can't
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Comments
wow very good! love how the view of breathing underwater is in fact the 'fish out of water' moment, where we as humans would drown, wereas a fish out of water would drown because of 'lack of water'. i dont have the know how to express that thought fully, however i enjoyed this lyrical piece indeed, thanks for sharing!
mmm. Love the imagery and the sense of suffocation too. Can I have this?(it'll be a couple of weeks)
Painful and beautiful story. So full of your thoroughly empathic imagination and your brilliant poetic expression. It really got inside me and made a deep impression.
Super evocative! I love how you take something we're familiar with, like the little mermaid, and rework its bones into something much stranger and sadder. This is a world I'd love to know more about.