Sea Urges
I’m hurtin like I’m shirtless herding sea urchins
It would be urgent, but I’m busy searching for sea serpents
So while they hide inside the tide pools that my mind rules
I’ll find schools of fish, dismiss them all to recess and find you
Hooked on bait and stuck on lines in the mainstream
While I befriend anemones and send my enemies apologies
Arms spread like parentheses,
wanting nothing more than everything I see
to be right here in between,
so with a barnacle grip on reality
and with a flying fish sense of gravity
I’ll ride this slow motion tragedy that’s grabbing me
By the fantasy and draggin me past Atlantis,
See me swim, and hold fate by the porcelain dorsal fin
Until with a forceful grin I snap it off like fear of mortal sin,
It leaves me floatin, like the shell-less hermit,
Catchin currents, passin fervent messages to desperate servants
Who deserve this more than current recipes would have them be
The best of me is yet to be,
and so I dream on the boundary between the sky and sea,
I try to see and finally I’m like a piece of driftwood flyin free
Not catching waves but actually the waves are catching me.
Chorus:
Go! Invertigo
Invertigo
Invertigo
It takes eleven thousand two hundred meters per second
to escape earth’s orbit, and I reckon that I’m destined to explore it,
forfeit my grip on the porch lit steps
as my brain thinks I unweave the chain link fence,
present presence to the present tense with this pleasant sense
of sound permanent as wet cement,
that I let ferment like rules in Catholic schools,
before I pack these empty pools with rocket fuel
Boom! We have lift-off, projectile flight,
Exiled right back to the wild night,
My smile might flicker like yellow candlelight
Past the atmosphere, say “hello fellow satellite”
I handle heights from basements to cloud formations,
Built for racing asteroids and chasing spaceships,
I once was tracing pavement and making payments,
But who knows where those chains went, I’ve escaped enslavement
Chorus
credits
from Leopard Shepherd,
released June 16, 2012
Bass/Rap Vocals: Tim "Earthling" Brochier
Guitar/Vocals/Synths: Andrew Levin
Drums: Sam Kellerman