out to sea out to sea didn’t know how far I’d be no shoreline no return just a quiet kind of burn [verse 1 — physical lost] I could say I’m lost but I don’t feel that I could say I’m stuck but it’s not that I turn one way end up somewhere else walk a straight line lose myself no sense of map no sense of turn Just as lost at the stern As I am at the bough it’s just distance without alarm Like a Sextant Without an arm no panic wave no breaking sound just less and less of solid ground [outro / hook] out to sea out to sea didn’t know how far I’d be no shoreline no return just a quiet kind of burn [verse 2 — mental lost] thought I was close thought I could see something like land ahead of me thought I had it held in place then it shifted lost its shape ideas drift before they land slip right out before I stand I reach for it but it’s not mine just fading edges of a nautical chart Out of reach Navigation in the dark didn’t feel it shift didn’t feel it leave just kept moving out to sea no big moment no final sign just horizon redefining line [outro / hook] out to sea out to sea didn’t know how far I’d be no shoreline no return just a quiet kind of burn [verse 3 — emotional lost] feels like the same as what’s in my head too much water nowhere to stand inside, outside it all blends in no clear edge to begin I try to name it it won’t stay feels like something slips away not drowning not afloat just something I can’t quite locate no map for this no guiding line just drifting through These thoughts of mine [verse 4 — full drift / convergence] didn’t swim out didn’t choose just blinked once lost the view physically, I turn and end up wrong mentally, I drift all along emotionally, I feel then it’s gone like tide that changes before too long something took me without a sound next thing I knew no ground no control no sharp change just different arrangement [bridge] maybe there’s land maybe there isn’t maybe I just stopped noticing it or maybe the map was never fixed just shifting lines I drifted with or maybe I’m not lost just not aligned with the way they draw the line [outro / hook] out to sea out to sea didn’t know how far I’d be no shoreline no return just a quiet kind of burn