Float Lyrics

Gray skies

Overcast giving me blue eyes

Sparkle bright like cracks in a bottle

Crooked lines

I'm fine filling time with wine

Filling my mind with fog and my blood with the fruit of the vine

You spill a glass and it's a mess when it comes out

Put it to your ear and you can hear how the sea sounds

When it's alone, not a sailor to be found

Out trying to find out whether it's round

Captain please, would you mind telling the breeze

To hold off while I'm trying to light a match

It's not like I'm catching a disease from this fog that I'm breathing

Just ignore the heaving

Breakers roar

Like gathered masses in a coliseum

Set him up on the crest

Where he's his best and we can all see him

Being transparent, yet still filled with flotsam

Jets himself to the top and hopes he doesn't get caught, man

It's funny how we say things are funny when they aren't at all

But ultimately that's our call

Sounds like I'm trying to stall

I just don't want you to know how things are really going

But you asked, so here it is

It's wide open

How did I get lost at sea?

Let's see if I can let go of everything on this boat

To see if I can really float

Float

Anchors up

It's time to find a new berth/birth

Time to find out what all your pontificating is worth

You can talk all you want, but that wind won't fill the sails

And your hull's full of holes 'cause you've been coughing up nails

You're keelhauled

Six feet under the waves

There's no rest in a watery grave

You feel small, like there's no one left who can save

Just go west, young man, and be brave

That's what they say, right?

But the moonlight illumines a new plight

The stars begin to fade and the Milky Way doesn't look right

And navigation is a fruitless endeavor

When you've ended up God knows where

And it feels like it's been forever

Never tell me the odds

Because it will not change my behavior

And at least I'll have an excuse for my failures ages later

If I stay ignorant and blissful

Just cruise like a missile

Drift in the stars' general direction

Just hoping to grab a fistful

"Slipping through your fingers" is an old cliche

But if you don't reach, it can't possibly end that way

I told you it would be a mess

But drink deeply, 'cause

This is me at my best

How did I get lost at sea?

Let's see if I can let go of everything on this boat

To see if I can really float

Float