Kept the Crown

(D) I built a ship in the bottle but it's not an excuse
Sent it to the other shore
Like it wanted just to grow up and explore
Lower down the sails for the world
Navigate the swells upon the blood of mother earth
Captain with the sweat upon the brow
Man the cannon blow the rival down
Dreams of hearing blasts of violent sound
And back home it sent a message

I put the message in a bottle but it's not an excuse
Got me holding onto it like the messages are telling me to quit
Telling me to live, telling me to give in to the flow
Put the years in. Holding me below
Hold me while I kick. Holy undertow, holy undertow
Was it grass that was growing underfoot?
Is it bliss when we feel understood?
Universal message underneath a steel hood

And those shadows grow
And I feel like mother nature when she rolls her eyes
I feel mother nature when the trees won't grow there
Feel the boat rocking like a future made of wood
Old glass bottle broke along the fine line
The past reduced to fragments
See how the future will unfold
Into the places that we go

(N) Cannot go where we find
And I was looking for my mind
Let us go to the dark
To the places that we go when we lose that spark
Its a bad fall like a bad dream
Hold my head and complain about the rain
The silence fall, and I cannot see
And I was looking for my own place

The shadows roll, oh those shadows roll
Oh those shadows grow, oh those shadows grow
Oh those shadows grow, oh those shadows grow
And I don't know
Where do we go, go
When we don't know which path to follow?
And I went down down down
I lost my kingdom but I held on to my crown

And still we try, try to leave
But nothing ever comes from nothing, no
So now we're blowing like leaves
In the wind and on the breeze, take me home
To the places that we don't know 'til we go

So down, I'm going down, down
I lost my kingdom, but I kept the crown
(yeah, yeah, yeah...)