Something Lands

Rate this song

Click a number to rate

Lyrics

[Intro - Synth, Building]
[Verse 1]
An eagle crossed an empty sky today
The blue forgot its name before it turned away
A serpent traced a line across the stone
The rock remembers nothing but the cold
A ship cut through the water, miles from shore
The ocean closed its mouth and spoke no more
Solomon was staring at his hands
The king of everything who couldn't understand
[Chorus]
Carried on for somebody else's sake
Through every door you chose to take
It doesn't bend and it doesn't break
It just keeps rolling long after you're gone
Something lands and leaves a wake
[Verse 2]
I've seen the ones who crossed the water clean
Their shadows fell on nothing in between
They filled the room with ordinary air
They raised a glass to no one standing there
The harbor lights were burning at the end
The dock was empty — nothing left to tend
The water smoothed itself like folded sheets
A closed mouth on an ordinary street
[Chorus]
Carried on for somebody else's sake
Through every door you chose to take
It doesn't bend and it doesn't break
It just keeps rolling long after you're gone
Something lands and leaves a wake
[Bridge - Building, Darker]
The crowned and hollow men are keeping time
Their footsteps echo in a pantomime
A clockwork figure bowing to the stage
An audience of dust, an empty page
But somewhere past the forty-second floor
A hand reached out and opened up a door
And everything behind it rearranged
The corridor remembers who was changed
[Instrumental Break - Synth and Marimba]
[Verse 3 - Quieter, Then Building]
Some currents pull the anchors from the sand
Some currents carry voices to the land
A thread pulled through a thousand open hands
Until the first hand couldn't understand
How far the thread had traveled from the spool
How warm the water was inside the pool
The shipwright and the vessel and the sea
Are indistinguishable to me
[Final Chorus]
Carried on for somebody else's sake
Through every door you chose to take
It doesn't bend and it doesn't break
It just keeps rolling long after you're gone
Something lands and leaves a wake
Something lands and leaves a wake
[Outro - Fading, Marimba and Synth]
The water remembers what the sky forgot
The stone remembers what the serpent does not
[End]

Comments (0)