The Ocean Between Us

The cold wind blows and sets the time
For Earth to go to sleep
The stars up high don't fret the height
For they're not shepherds sheep

And who's to say the sun will rise
When morning comes around
It's you, my love
You bring it here, up from the underground

You're wild in a quiet sort of way
I can imagine that you're fiery when you want to be
But mellow as a jasmine tree
All within your hands for you to say

And I will burn down the ocean between us
And the distance from Mars to Venus
I will travel to defy
The ones in the sky
Who conspire to keep me away

The cold wind blows and sets the time
For Earth to go to sleep
The stars up high don't fret the height
For they're not shepherds sheep

And who's to say the sun will rise
When morning comes around
It's you, my love
You bring it here, up from the underground

You're clever like an Austin heroine
I know this for a fact
You're sharper than a samurai sword

But softer than the eastern shore
Henry Eight's been slain by Anne Boleyn
And I will dry up the ocean between us
And come up with a plan ingenious

By necessity, not pride
To be by your side
When the red waters come rolling in

These three and three quartersome thousands of droplets
Divide you and me, how I wish I could stop its
Corrosive conducting of savage obstruction
So I could reach you without facing destruction

And I would raise Carthage to ground just to please you
The trees would turn blue if they knew that I need you
Atlantis you sooner would find than my voice
And it leaves me to seek out the Grail without choice

You're angry in a calmer kind of sense
You can leave Giants flat
You're mighty as a holy pyre
But subtler than those beings higher
Beautiful, but still quite as intense

And I will drain out the ocean between us
With more power than grants a dominus
If you want me, this I'll do
Come traveling to you
And have all that is abstract make sense