One shoe rose without me Turned its sole toward the sun I reached to put it back on Such a stupid thing to want Deep, deep, deep There’s a whole sky Out of reach I can see it I can see it I can see it But it cannot, cannot See me He lifted me to daylight Every time I slipped I am older than he was then I am reaching like a kid Deep, deep, deep There’s a whole sky Out of reach I can see it I can see it I can see it But it cannot See me There’s a man in my lung with a miniature sun Putting it out with the tip of his tongue I’m kicking at doors in a house made of water, There’s somebody in there who swears I’m his son He’s younger than me and he’s holding my knees, Trying to fold me back small in the palm of his hand My shoe’s giving evidence up at the surface Describing a man who went missing while learning to stand And the bubbles have mouths and the mouths have appointments With people who’ve never been told of my name (who?) I’m sending them up with a piece of a sentence They open their lips and forget why they came (say it, fucking say it) There’s a crack in the sky with an eye pressed against it, I move to the left and it moves to the right (I see you) I turn myself over, the river turns with me Somebody keeps putting the floor on the light Now my hands have gone knocking ahead of my body They knock and they knock till a knuckle finds stone And I’m twelve, and I’m thirty, and older than both And my father says hold it, just hold it, I’m bringing you home (hold it, hold it, hold it) You will think I didn’t hear you You will think I didn’t try I was reaching I was reaching All the time Deep, deep, deep There’s a whole sky Out of reach I can see it I can see it I can see it Can you still See me?
