[Verse 1] Glass water holds the long light still Rare soft heat on the northern skin Salt in the air, nothing moving fast Just the quiet weight of where we’ve been Something large turns beneath the blue A slow curve cutting the mirrored day No flag, no map, no borrowed star Only the pull that will not say [Chorus] Eight thousand miles of open dark Drawn by a line no eye can keep From the feeding deep to the warmer dark Where the young first learn to sleep We sit and watch the surface break as the tide that never explains How the giant finds its perfect track Through months of night and endless day [Verse 2] Len’s opens wide and green A table set for the ones who know The sun forgets to leave the sky And the water keeps its secrets low No chart is written on the bone No voice calls home across the years Only a knowing older than the stone That turns them south when the season clears [Chorus] Eight thousand miles of open dark Drawn by a line no eye can keep From the feeding deep to the warmer dark Where the young first learn to sleep We sit and watch the surface break as the tide that never explains How the giant finds its perfect track Through months of night and endless day [Bridge / Breakdown] What holds the heading true? What folds the distance small? A memory written in the blood Or a silence that answers all The light leans close but will not speak Breathe once and disappear Leaving only the soft warm air And the question that outlives the years [Final Stanza – repeat 3×] We sit and watch the surface break the tide that never explains How the giant finds its perfect track And leaves us wondering in the endless day We sit and watch the surface break as the tide that never explains How the giant finds its perfect track And leaves us wondering in the endless day We sit and watch the surface break as the tide that never explains How the giant finds its perfect track And leaves us wondering in the endless day [Outro – fade on last line or soft instrumental]
