Mermaid Bones

Waste a hazy afternoon Soupy temps keep me locked inside Locked inside my little room Watch the stars pass me by Like a seafoam necklace Wrapped around a ball of twine You'll find the bones of mermaids Who you've known in a past life It's a lot like the whale that has come to shore He heard being dry was more comfortable It's the way that we move in a field of wheat Yeah, we feel like we've got wings on our feet It's the last burst of laughter And a sigh of relief There's a moth out to pasture With a cow on their sleeve We once lived in liquid but Now we can breathe So we sing to the bones that Grow safe in the sea Counting tiles up above Speckled with dust like a celestial marvel Cocoon myself in sheets Maybe tomorrow I won't be larva Like a tangled kite string I just want to touch the sky Inside a sopping rain cloud Merpeople grave yard in the eye Like the sound of the thunder as it rolls on through Shakes the bones out the clouds so they rain on you You can't ever feel and you can't even see When they evaporate out of the sea See their place of rest is up in the sky Just like the rest of us, theyre real close by You know when we die that could be it for you and me Save for the bones that grow safe in the sea In the deepest, darkest trench A palace built with coral and marble 20,000 leagues above The ship's propeller makes the surface garble Bloodied carcasses Of a school of fish That got trapped in the path Of the propeller made a dying wish There's a time for flight, fight And a time to just let go But you realize they're the same damn thing Predetermined by a code Like a wolf without kin Or a dog up a tree You don't want to be man You just want to be free Set fire to the palace Pry open the gates Trying to get up in the sky And I don't want to be late Oh, the exit sign Is just too far away Wanna be in the storm cloud Wanna be there today When we play catch the lightening With a skeleton key And we sing for the bones That grow safe in the sea