The Inuit Promise

I took a worn out strand of your cellophane hair and stretched it sideways

And though my mind slipped through between the sea beneath

My brain stopped working from the cold

I sort of strayed from what we know

And so I'll be like you and do what's right

And win a love I don't deserve out on the ice tonight

Teach me the bluest song you know

The moon ain't comin' up and I swear to God tonight it feels like snow

I'm glad we got your hands warm so my arms can feel like trust again

I can promise true waves when the summer comes

The world still fits the same form we engraved when it all began

Maybe catch a new wave, feels right, feels right

So we ride whales and drag-race time

And knock the fires from the traces of trilobite hives

You sleep like God inside her womb

And you see clearly too

The silicon wasteland they left inside my mind

I'm glad we got your hands warm so my arms can feel like trust again

I can promise true waves when the summer comes

The world still fits the same form we engraved when it all began

Maybe catch a new wave

We lost the road now

Inject the charms

And we care for all of ours

We stand in rows now

Transfer alarms

Just like the Inuit with the promise song to come down and see

Your solvents frozen here on the petal rung

Is all we have to see enlarged inside as we espy the warming sea

Your breath diffused and never realized aside from where the panicked hide

And I, just a subtle lift provider on the other side