[Verse 1]

Pulse soared in free form

An effort to try more

Careful on calm shores

A still hand, a stale core

[Verse 2]

I walked inside, turned the key clockwise

I didn’t want you to get caught in this

So sent digressions instead

I guess it’s just the way

Everyone else was made

I hoped this time I’d stay

[Chorus]

We can’t just build new roads

Across these empty plots of land that we don’t own

We’ll just have to rely

A little longer on our current failing infrastructure

Oceans look no deeper

Unless their buoyancy’s tested

[Verse 3]

You said it’s time to get up

The light already shown

It’s getting harder to make

Whatever I could just postpone

Til tomorrow

There was an answer I just don’t

Remember now

[Verse 4]

You used to wake up at night

You sat next to the door

You used to wonder how we could relive

All the dreams explored

The night before

You used to slow at the corners

We used to want to grow

Now we’re better off, right?

[Bridge]

Once in a while I find myself floating

If you just stay still you won’t notice

The current pulling

Drift an undulant form

Further than seagulls will go

Left the phone beside the bed

I left the key on the desk

Whatever else I may have left

I can come and take the rest

Slow the current goes

Don’t wait up til I get home

Tow and tethered flow

I’ll be right outside the door

Don’t forget your classes start

Don’t forget to study hard

[Outro]

Hope you do your best, I do

Sorry I can’t be there