There is a section of the river where the current sends itβs shivers The wind dances with the tree branches in slow motion (but) I was grown with my toes on the edge of the ocean Leaning in with your hand and handsome love songs about relentlessness and forgiveness You sang a gold song like a January river flowing beneath the ice You thought your love could break through that shallow ceiling, but I couldn't hear the tapping as you drowned beneath my feet I was submerged in the cross currents pulling me and hugging me caught in the center how I heated up and bent you then left to wade in the river how you stayed next to me and remained never bitter
I can't find the line and I can't ask you to throw me one because I'm dragging you in as I float through tracing the fire I began on this river with my fingertips and remembering how I was grown on the shore but how I can never be sure if the breath in my ear is someone to be trusted or if the breath in my ear is that monster crawling near taking the color, once again, from my atmosphere.