Occident

Mercy me, the night is long

Take my pen to write you this song

Lord is it harder to carry on

Or to know when you are done?

All my life I felt as though

I'm inside a beautiful

Memory replaying with the sound turned

Down low

Long life, show your face

Slow heart, curb your taste

Smoke me out of my hiding place

Long life, state your case

What in the world are we waiting for?

Building glowing cities along the shore

Where the wind batters in

Baiting my kin like a matador

So much value placed upon

What lies just beyond our plans

Waving my handkerchief

Running along to the end of the sand

Long life, speak your name

So tired of the guessing game

But something is moving just out of frame

Slow heart, brace and aim

Breaching slowly across the sea

One mast - flash like the stinger of a bee

To take you away

A swarming fleet is gonna take you from me

The universe is getting loose

Sodden spread from some leaden disuse

Rushing unhinged towards diminishing lights

Like a headless caboose

I will wait for you 'longside the ocean

And make do with my no-skin

But then long life, will you let me in?

And then slow heart, are you gona know him?

Long life, speak your name

I wait while I decry the wait

And when I die, may I relate

Slow heart, congregate

To leave your home and your family

For some distortion of property?

Well darling I can't go

But you may stay

Here with me