Grouper from Impossible Bodies by Faith Eliott
Tracklist
| 3. | Grouper | 4:04 |
Lyrics
Grouper
Lately you say you take comfort in these corridors
Where it is cool and lit like a jewellery store
Tropical fish gleam like painted gargoyles
propelled by unknowable forces in their mercury hearts
So we drift through these rooms as if deep in a dream
transfixed by the effortlessness of absurdity
and in praising the grace of these impossible bodies,
somehow we too becomes guiltless and free
Until stumbling back outside to blink in the sunlight
confronted once more with the shapes of our lives
you cry on a park bench as strangers pass by
and even though I feel hopeless I tell you it’ll all be all right.
And when the aquarium coaxes you back again
with it’s pearly lights, with it’s living lanterns
you’ll be safe for a while from the things that your friends say
and the thunder in your chest might drain away.
Though somedays I fear I’ll return to find you still there
taking refuge in a miniature shipwreck
feeding on bloodworm, your skin a colourless gauze on your skeleton
as the coral binds your ankles and wrists
and the minnows cling to your greening eyelids
and squinting through that blue mist you’re say
“whose there? who is it?”
And I won’t have the courage to wrench you out of the water
to gasp and contort on the tiled floor
if that’s what it means for you to live in the world.
