Mermaids

Mermaids swim up to see the moon But they go down to earth to seek the truth Waves stroke through their hair They're currents of far Can't find the way out of the water They can hear your voice inside their heads They wonder who you are and want you dead The colour of beets and melting sand Explaining the thousands of glassy mucus and blood Home's a statue underwater No underworld No phobias Hells the place of guards to orchards In the underworld no breath is pure We go down into the battlefield Erased by the rain and daffodils Rain's older than earth Yellow light casts on Listen close it's the end of the world So while you can go to your corner store And buy her flowers Even if they're wilted and old Before everything turns to ashes or pixels Nature will help Or it will help to destroy Expressed in dollars Too numb to feel Hyms to the machines Numbered in words So use them wisely Don't boil in them No don't boil in them Home's a statue underwater No underworld No phobias Hells the place of guards to orchards In the underworld no breath is pure