You're a reed in a glass

Shoulders curved by angel breath

If you're not gonna laugh

Let my words like a mist go

I cannot pretend

You're far away

I've nothing to say

Hey, hey

Lift the grid off the photo

I can't tell you what to see

I'm a nautical man

Writhing in the shallow waters

If you know what I mean you'll see

That I might die in the bogs of the hinterlands

Lungs all stretched through the foliage

Clustered branches

Will you tell me its easy

To come onto shore soon

To climb up the beach?

My mirage have I found you?

I'm only falling down

I only feel uneasy

I saw it crawling on the floor

A creature breathing from its pores

You can't pretend that you don't know

It's only you

"Shall we go on and gather on the surface

Where there's room among my kind?"

I'm a fool to believe in it

But I'm far too deep to go

I can't go back

The world is turning black

A vile curse

Everyone is going home

I can't pretend

It's only getting worse

Don't go without me

I can't pretend

It's only getting worse

Oh, worse

I can't pretend

We're only getting worse

Oh ho oh

Lift the grid off the photo

I can't tell you what to see

I'm a nautical man

Writhing in the shallow waters

Toss out your vinyl colours

Cause I don't understand

Why in the world you'd want to plaster pictures

All around your head

Is it a signal you're a cultured man?

You're only getting bolder with the times

You shift and roll

Cosmicomic lines

Calvino's just for clout

But tell me if I'm wrong

You're just another universe