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Floating

from Uneven Keel by Invocal

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Inconceivable - they're unbelievable,
I hadn't planned to come this way at all
But they shouldn't expect you
To drop what protects you
Without it you're tiny and soft and accessible

Please don't let me fall
Please don't let me fall

Life has a habit of
Suddenly grabbing, of
Lifting you high above all you can fathom
Then dropping you facing
The place you escaped from
And launching you over the top
For the hell of it

So why I was partly an ocean
I could not be entirely sure
They truly disrupted my floating
By asking me what I was floating for

At times it's kicking up evenings
That should be sunken and gone
Of you incredible hero
And me incredible con
You soon become a real person
As heroes frequently do
And I just gradually worsen,
Remain enchanted with you
I'm tired of answering questions,
You know full well that I lie
And I'm not in the position
To tell you anything nice

Cos now you sleep with a stranger
And I just sleep in the sea
And though I know I'm no better
You know it's meant to be me

(you may float - I may fall
you may hold other worlds…)

How predictable
That we can't shift it all
Mountains of baggage - your luggage and rubbish
I know that you're in there
You must be there somewhere - if I remove one part,
another might crush you though.

Please don't let me go
Please don't let me go

Often at night there's
A recurring nightmare
Life's got you again
By the scruff of the neck
And I can't move at all
While you're flung against walls
And I'm helpless to help you
I can't even see you there.

Iiiiiiii I cannot sink now - asleep with a stranger
Iiiiiii I cannot sink now - I've too much to tell you

They truly disrupted my floating
By telling me what I was floating for

I started picking up signals
Which I assumed were from you
A psychological taunting
Of signs imagined and true
The scraps of poems you've torn up
And ends of paintings you've burned
that dance and dash down the river
all reach me just to confirm
that you're not properly living
and I'm not properly gone
'cos I've been picking up signals
and you've been hearing those songs
but now you sleep with a stranger
and I just sleep in the sea
and I can't shout any longer
you know it's meant to be me.

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from Uneven Keel, released March 30, 2006
Music & lyrics by R. Swayne

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