Safe in my sweet cocoon, no sirens for to wake me soon
I'll float down the river, captured in time
Motionless but for the fishes that swim in my eyes
But a riverbed is just too cold a place to rest my head
So please let me know when the lava cuts below
The water's scintillating flow

Now that I'm sober I'd better run the gauntlet
Did you see the paper? Who done the dirty this time?
Read one, you've read them all
Heard they've got a new tax
Fifty percent on thinking caps, well
Can't say that I'm surprised
Gotta pay for more defences
Against those Russian spies, well
I never thought too much
Of making such a fuss
They built a wall inside me
Told me you can't make it better

But now that I'm stoned again
I'm odds and ends, I'm undecided
And still no truth provided
Alone with heavy eyelids
My soul, of late it feels so damn divided

And what if I don't believe (my own mind)?
And what if I can't recall (take your time)?
And what if I'm not that portrait I painted so carefully, meticulously
Wrong?

Thinking of taking off, a ticket to a fantasy
But I won't get too far
Carrying all that I've lived so far, no
I'll shed my civilian skin
A little reinvention
A little more magic than I can mention
Gotta spend some time alone
Just to decorate your home
The last thing you see before you
You've always looked to me
A picture of the sea
You're the wave that breaks upon my shore
The wind that knocks at the door

But now that I'm running out of things that I can say belong to me
I can't reach my thoughts around it
The sage with many outfits
It sleeps in shadows that defy defining

Spinning out a circle in a daydream
Westward pretending we don't see the daughter of the sea
Slowly sinking into a pool of callous and crude oil
Oil
OIL
OIL!

And what if all that I know (I don't know)?
And is it too late to change (when I go)?
And can it really be true that someday this all will be forgotten,
Lost forever
GONE