Perfect Water

Perfect water
The dark wind braids the waves
The crazed birds raid the trees

Is this our destiny?
To join our hands at sea
And slowly sink, and slowly think
This is perfect water passing over me

Do you know Jacques Cousteau
When they said on the radio
That he hears bells in random order
Deep beneath the perfect water?

Lord, that is frightening
But still so inviting
(To drown, to drown) to drown inside sound
That lay so far underground
And to think (and to think)
And to think (and to think)
This is perfect water passing over me

To flow inside the spiral tide
To drop my eyes like a bride and ride
Across the curl unmarked by borders
It waits for me like an orphaned daughter

(A life) a life of perfect order
(A strange) a strange and perfect water
(A life) a life of perfect order
(A strange) a strange and perfect water

Perfect water
I dream this dream within my deep and warm Gulf Stream
Where two blocks of ice melt into my hands like dice

And I roll (seven)
A seven on the floor of the sea (seven)
And I roll (seven)
A seven on the floor of the sea (seven)
And I feel the perfect water washing over me

To flow inside the spiral tide
To drop my eyes like a bride and ride
Across the curl unmarked by borders
It waits for me like an orphaned daughter

(A life) a life of perfect order
(A strange) a strange and perfect water
(A life) a life of perfect order
(A strange) a strange and perfect water

A life
A strange
A life
A strange