Shapeshifter

[Verse 1]

I remember the skies and the sand

I remember your face and your lovely hand

Words poured out on a dusty land

And gravity comes to us all

I feel the engines stall

Feel us start to fall

[Chorus 1]

Blue over you

And lose all to you

The time expanding

And lose all ascent

[Verse 2]

A signal that no one hears

The surface blurs and the ocean nears

Sadness bursting disappears

Waves that lift us and toss

Promise made of enduring loss

You speak only of minnows and moss

[Chorus 2]

Blue over me

And lose all to me

The time expanding

And lose all ascent

[Bridge]

While you let the water in

I sleep and feel you near again

While you let the water in

I dreamt again that I couldn't swim

[Verse 3]

Finding myself past the half-life of me

Lost in the weeds, tugging at sleeves

A dreadful despair of a color that pales to describe

So taking the form of a winged butterfly

And lifting myself through a sliver of white

A lazy path to the fence row and the flowers within

[Verse 4]

Needing some speed, I became then a fawn

Feeling the dangers of the quickening dawn

I leapt over the fence and raced across the softening ground

And after some time I discovered a pool

Water was clear where the lilies were blue

I drank until full and waited to no ill effect

[Verse 5]

Seeing the sky I became then a bird

A swallow that sped through the warm thinning air

To heights unimagined, 'til loneliness took back its hold

[Verse 6]

Where is the place for what's all left of me?

Where do we keep the things we don't need?

Where is the solace promised me in voices before?

Suddenly me just here back on the land

Reaching for you and finding your hand