Big Thief - Simulation Swarm

I tried to tell you, I didn't know how to stay, you believe
She can see through, cutting at the silent clay of relief
Beckon deep blue, fettered in the magnet sun, eat the gun
As it feeds you, spitting out the oxygen, once again

Once again

Once again, empty horses gallop through the violet door, follow red
Crooked courses, shadows in the moonlit floor, oh my stars
Winged creatures, gathering in silk and height, like the last
Human teachers*

Once again, we must bleed new, even as the hours shake, crystal blood
Like a dream true, a ripple in the wounding wake, you believe

I believe too, you are the river of light who I love
That I cling to in the belly of the empty night
From the thirty-first floor of the simulation swarm
With the drone of fluorescence, flicker, fever, fill, deform
With the warm gush and I wanna touch like we never could before
I'd fly to you tomorrow, I'm not fighting in this war
I wanna drop my arms and take your arms and walk you to the shore

I remember building an energy shield in your room
Like a temple, swallows in the windless field, very thin
With your mother, tall as a pale green tree, very wild
Bright as winter, rising with the prism key, and a child
To deliver, tangled in the blood and vine, is the first
Little angel**

Little Andy, soft in your newborn skin, only one
Little Andy, will you return again, I believe
We could renew and you could be my brother, once again
Fall asleep with our backs against each other, you believe

I believe too, you are the river of light who I love
That I sync to in the belly of the empty night
From the thirty-first floor of the simulation swarm
With the drone of fluorescence, flicker, fever, fill, deform
With the warm gush and I wanna touch like we never could before
I'd fly to you tomorrow, I'm not fighting in this war
I wanna drop my arms and take your arms and walk you to the shore
I'd fly to you tomorrow, I'm not fighting in this war
I wanna drop my arms and take your arms

*w pierwszej wersji piosenki po "human teachers" padała także linijka "machinery of constant sight"
**w pierwszej wersji piosenki po "little angel" padała także linijka "taken from the northern pine"