No Cause For Alarm

[Verse 1]

There is no cause for alarm

Though the waves are lapping at your feet

Standing with your dog on a braided [?]

Turning your back to thee

There is no cause for alarm

First the applause and then the calm

'Cause you're riding a broken glass wave back to the shoreline

For the last time

[Chorus]

With an elegant wave of your hand

And those homemade tattoos down your arm

Half in the sun, half in a shadow

There is no cause for alarm

[Verse 2]

I'll leave you my tools and all of my rules and useless weaponry

I'll leave you my maps and all of those wraps my father taught to me

And I'm sure as sure can be that two is more than one

I still don't know if the universe is very old or very young

[Chorus]

With an elegant wave of your hand

And those homemade tattoos down your arm

Half in the sun, half in a shadow

There is no cause for alarm