We’re lost in translations Swallowed by tidal waves The seashore is dried out No sense in paying retribution When the ocean recedes An avalanche of waterfalls fall Off this desert land Forced and digested With diamond hearts And sapphire eyes We’re spent to the limit With such exuberance It’s calming to sway with the sands Of a dried out tide Collecting seashells And making necklaces Out of foreclosures for you Reaching for the stars Or Saturn’s rings You leave me scrambling For something that never existed In the establishment of our existence Expectations and dramatizations Here we sleep on driftwood Casting ourselves out To the mercy of the sea With just a bottle and a message To get us by We’re obscured in your sorrow But ingesting in the dread of tomorrow And dreaming of obedience denied