Swimming Through Stone

Lyrics

I have heard about this About walking into a room And the floor being covered in snakeskins, snakeskins I wanna crawl back into them like sleeping bags And I need this like I need paper thin fins How I envy the herrings Always on their way in easy flashes Tiny lightning glinting Like sparks when hooves strike flint But I feel like I am swimming through stone So I'll hold my brain out of the water As I swim my remains back to her 'Cause the last thing that i need is a wet brain During the hurricane So I'll rest my weary head Between the egret's beak So I can hear you sing The salmon eggs to sleep With the songs of the wild The wild I thought the coast was clear I thought the coast was clear Now I'm wading through dead skeeters Through the wriggling larva And the blood suckers But I've never sucked blood before this I've never sucked blood before this I've never sucked blood before this And I knew better But I walked right in again There is that floor all scattered with owl pellets I examine the tidy bits Of wonder and decay all mystified At the little skeletal glories I wonder what went on in the rabbit's hole And how these tiny things cannot seem to escape Until we are left with snakeskin And matted fur, hair thin bones