Shipbreaking

There's a force that holds you together It's the same one that pulls you through me An underground generator That holds you to your vow of mystery There's a hill where we scattered all the magpies And you held time in the space between your lips And in the distance was a close-up picture All this music on a mobius strip And all the numbers that you cannot count to Winding sound into books and buildings Calloused skin from all of the habit That we wore while shipbreaking Shipbreaking There are words that flare from your mouth A gradual thickening of the air There's the buzz of our failure, our failure The weight of which we cannot bear There's the bed where I dreamed against you Until our limbs became transparent And I attempted to breathe through paper And you made rules for what has not happened yet We thought breathing mere translation Scared that our lungs took up too much space How we longed to become weightless Simulated and shipbreaking Shipbreaking There's a way that I tried to contain you With all of my small grammatical worries Being guilty of the forceful And the constant search for meaning But I have swept away many opponents Wielding eloquence but very little grace While moneychangers took the temple With us outside shipbreaking Shipbreaking There's the night when you came over And we just lay there trembling You reached through me and you turned the lamp down And said show me all the things you think you see I said a summer storm so heavy that it marks you A lover's bike that is fastened to a tree The spill of wax on the floor of the bedroom All these things All these things