Lyrics

What a way What a way to go What a fine and inexplicable way of going, this What an uncanny visitation Taking me into the depths And leaving me stranded What a way What a way to go What a peculiar and exquisite way of going, this Like confetti [?] all along and all the way I go And you will never know Just how far down I met you And it's all the way I go Just to look at you One last look is all I take before I have to go Just to look at you Like an effigy of salt I swept away, I sparkled forth In diamond rays I fall forever Just to look at you Then it's down, down, down I go I hate the things I know I wish I could retrace my steps Before I went down to sea Where I crept among the depths Crawling underneath All alone and far too deep Every creature, every foundling, every horrid gaping mouth Just to look at you One last look is all I take before I have to go Just to look at you When the lexicon is emptied out Of every thought and every breath There is no language left But just to look at you And it's down, down, down I go My beloved, my curse How you reach me Open and you've heaped upon my hearth And the many things that you've required of me How they frighten and inspire me The arch of your brow The way everything's laid out Just to look at you One last look is all I take before I have to go Just to look at you The honey of your skin, the heart-shape of your mouth Oh there I go again, I'm leaving out Just let me look at you And it's down, down, down I go Down, down, down I go Down, down, down I go Down, down, down I go