Imaginary Line (For Axis)

It took so long to learn That I didn't have to know I could be endlessly reborn Like footprints in the snow The world it melts away And they start to lose their form And when they're gone the ground Still has the memory of their warmth They see your imperfections To be fixed and finalized And be displayed in their museum Or in a towering archive But an everblooming flower Was never meant to be Pressed between the pages in the dark And left to dry and go to seed I never knew, never knew, never knew, never knew Never knew that there was a path Until I realized I was on it When I wandered barefoot on the grass On the grass, on the grass And I realized I had grown it And every step I took Would crack the spine of all the books That had been sleeping in the dust Until I learned that I could look I don't want to be like concrete in the sky I want to shift with every season Change like water into ice Swam in like a river Inhaled just like the steam And given time when I am frozen And I am drifting in my dreams Imaginary, arbitrary, hard to see, hard to care About the line running down the center Your heart is beating, heart is beating Heart is beating fine But no one asked you whether Your spirit was aligned, in this lifetime It's hard to go and hard to stay A little more or less today Sometimes the pieces fall right into place A day or two, maybe more Sometimes you might get three or four But the knowledge of it in your core will never fade away Try, try, try for a little while Look away, try not to shut it down Maybe if you only wait it out Find it right inside the clothing aisle Why'd you build a room and stay inside Why'd I play along and sing in time How'd they get the power to decide Why'd it take so long to make it right Try, try, try for a little while Look away, try not to shut it down Maybe if you only wait it out Find it right inside the clothing aisle Why'd you build a room and stay inside Why'd I play along and sing in time How'd they get the power to decide Why'd it take so long to make it right Try, try, try for a little while Find it right inside the clothing aisle Years inside but now you've made it out Go your way and let them come around Footprints melt away on sunlit ground Water turns to ice and back around Try, try, try for a little while Find it right inside the clothing aisle Years inside but now you've made it out Go your way and let them come around Footprints melt away on sunlit ground Water turns to ice and back around Try, try, try for a little while Find it right inside the clothing aisle Years inside but now you've made it out Go your way and let them come around Footprints melt away on sunlit ground Water turns to ice and back around