Architeuthis

Here we are again
Floating in the midnight zone
You are close at hand
With you I'll never be alone
Even if I want to be
No matter how deep I dive to
I know you see me
You see me even when I can't see you

Not one scientist
Has ever seen you with their eyes
But I know you exist
From the scars you leave behind
From where you'd hold me
Trying to keep me safe from harm
You always told me

I have so many arms to hold you down
To hold you down, to hold you down
I have so many arms to hold you down

You have no lips or lungs
Still you spoke your words inside
You put them on my tongue
And when they'd cut me up then I'd
Seal them in amber
To blunt the edges of your rhymes
There's no love grander
Than to hold your story in me all the time

What big eyes you have
To see me in the gloom
You do not hear my song
To you it's silent as the tomb
But still I hear you
The siren songs of your alarm
Say not to fear you

I have so many arms to hold you down
To hold you down, to hold you down
I have so many arms to hold you down

I hold my breath another measure
The weight of water bends my bones
You could say that I'm a kraken from the pressure
But I swear one day I'll make my mind my own
I swear one day I'll make my mind my own

Ten for the arms that you wind round about you
Nine for The Hermit I hide from all the doubts who
Eight me alive like the sharks swimming around
Seven for the seas and I'm going

Six for the spiraling maelstrom in my heart
Five for the things I could see but it's too dark
Four for the things I could hear but there's no sound
Three I could touch but I'm going

Two me and you in our arms as we both drown
One I'm undone and I'm going down
I'm going down
I'm going down, I'm going down
I'm going

When I go down, you are coming with me
If I go down, I swear to god I'll take you with me
And when I go down to where the water bends my bones
Then I won't need you anymore