Looking upward, better than
Being cast downward
The light shines through the smog and
The dew sets the same, sticky mess
It was salty then like now, and the
Body moon rises all the same
To see it in it's glory,
No one around, some dead
Some alive, ones to cast the living
It's been like that for some time now
But for miles on end in all directions
We didn't see it coming, born 400 years
Too late
It's all the same to us
Hotels and strip malls line the shores
But when was it once a feat to see
The ships a hauling in the stains of
Time
And to oxidize the nation, with one
Fell swoop we see it
Sand mixed still and just as we pass
Bauxite litters the scene
It's not our fault, we'll clean it up
But this hear, this transcript, not
Not even my native tongue
It captures all, and still yet we are free
The mind wanders too and fro
And although it seems free
Its fun riding along the tracks
For if we were free, derail we shall
And turn the sources outward
Running and hiding like children in the wood
We didn't see it coming, we knew it all
All along
The end that follows, is of our hand
Never bite the one that feeds you
But burn your own
And as you travel that great sun bleached
Strip
Remember and turn, when glass beads
Bought land, you weren't even a thought
And still yet the snow falls
So much cold, ain't seen the sun in ages
We sit and think reading the books of time
Long since passed, but it's all we know
Born 400 years too late, the aftermath
The time has stopped, the clocks don't run
We don’t need them; we have this, and the reminder
Of a remainder of 1,000 years too late
But in starring at the crayons like someone
From a world of water I see
And think
In a pretty picture, what if we just let them
Keep their own land?
