[ obsessive emotional loop, raw confessional delivery, close-mic female vocal, restrained verses with spiraling tension, breathy intensity, near-breaking vulnerability, fixation and release, intimate volatility, emotional claustrophobia ] [verse 1] there’s an ocean in my head endless, vast, and bright sparkling in the light I wish you could see it I’d give it to you whole no break, no loss but it won’t come through not like that, not once [pre-chorus] all I’ve got’s a straw and it’s not enough [chorus] bucket through a straw through a straw, through a straw trying not to lose it all lose it all, lose it all I had something whole now it’s coming out small you get half of it if I get it across bucket through a straw through a straw, through a straw every word I drop is a piece that falls you see something there but it’s not what I saw [verse 2] if I had a hose I’d send it fast every line, every shade just as I have no blur, no fade no loss, no wait just all of it there in a single take but I push too hard and it spills instead dripping down the sides of what I said [pre-chorus] every drop I lose changes what you get [chorus] bucket through a straw through a straw, through a straw trying not to lose it all lose it all, lose it all I had something full now it’s breaking apart you get bits of it I had all of the start bucket through a straw through a straw, through a straw every word I miss leaves a missing part you see something there but it’s not from the start [bridge] it’s not just one it’s a sky of them all lit up at once in my head again I pick one star try to send it through but it fades out slow before it gets to you like a sunset drawn in a graphite line wrong kind of tool for this kind of light you get sketch by sketch lined up in rows none of them hold what I know [final chorus] bucket through a straw through a straw, through a straw watch it thin out now watch the meaning drop I had something full I had all of it you get echoes back you get parts of it bucket through a straw through a straw, through a straw trying not to lose it all— still I lose a lot you see something there but it’s not what I saw [outro] I’d hand it to you all at once no blur, no loss no broken parts but all I’ve got is this a straw
