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Tonight will be
The night that we
Begin to ease
The plugs out of the dam.
And we will stand
Knee deep in the flow,
The undertow
Will grab our heels and won't let go.
And while we hold,
Our legs quivering,
The water rises now
To our teeth
When we just let go
And sail belly up to the clouds,
The rocks scraping our backs.
To breath in the air will be
The only thing that we have
And all the wasted nights
And empty moments
In our lives flushed away
As we sway with the rhythm
Of the waves bobbing us up.
Crests fall to troughs we feel our gills open up.
And sail belly up to the clouds,
The rocks scraping our backs.
To breath in the air will be
The only thing that we have
And if the hook sets in
The bottom of our lungs,
We'll rip it out and lick the blood off with our tongues.
The despair can ravage you
If you turn your head around to look down the path
That's led you here,
Because what can you change?
You're a vessel now
Floating down the waterways.
You can take your rudder
And aim your ship,
Just don't bother with the things left in your wake.
Just sail belly up to the clouds,
The rocks scraping your back.
To breathe in the air will be
The only thing that you have
And your love will be warm nights
With pockets of moonlight
Spotlighting you as you drift,
The actor in this play.
And you walk across the stage,
Take a bow, hear the applause,
And as the curtain falls,
Just know you did it all
The best that you knew how
And you can hear them cheering now.
So let a smile out and show your teeth
Because you know you lived it well.
The night that we
Begin to ease
The plugs out of the dam.
And we will stand
Knee deep in the flow,
The undertow
Will grab our heels and won't let go.
And while we hold,
Our legs quivering,
The water rises now
To our teeth
When we just let go
And sail belly up to the clouds,
The rocks scraping our backs.
To breath in the air will be
The only thing that we have
And all the wasted nights
And empty moments
In our lives flushed away
As we sway with the rhythm
Of the waves bobbing us up.
Crests fall to troughs we feel our gills open up.
And sail belly up to the clouds,
The rocks scraping our backs.
To breath in the air will be
The only thing that we have
And if the hook sets in
The bottom of our lungs,
We'll rip it out and lick the blood off with our tongues.
The despair can ravage you
If you turn your head around to look down the path
That's led you here,
Because what can you change?
You're a vessel now
Floating down the waterways.
You can take your rudder
And aim your ship,
Just don't bother with the things left in your wake.
Just sail belly up to the clouds,
The rocks scraping your back.
To breathe in the air will be
The only thing that you have
And your love will be warm nights
With pockets of moonlight
Spotlighting you as you drift,
The actor in this play.
And you walk across the stage,
Take a bow, hear the applause,
And as the curtain falls,
Just know you did it all
The best that you knew how
And you can hear them cheering now.
So let a smile out and show your teeth
Because you know you lived it well.
Lyrics submitted by wimplucy, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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Tonight will be The night that we Begin to ease The plugs out of the dam
I think this is a metaphor for having lots of pent up emotion and suppressed issues that have been ignored, but now it’s time to address them and let them all flow out.
And we will stand Knee deep in the flow The undertow Grabs our heels and won’t let go.
The issues are slowly coming out as we stand right in them to confront them. Great imagery as I can almost feel the current of the water flowing across my heels.
And while we hold Our legs quivering The water rises now To our teeth as we just let go
We completely surrender and give up control even though the problems of life are overwhelming and metaphorically stack up all the way to our teeth.
And sail Belly up to the clouds The rocks scraping our backs To breath in the air will be The only thing that we have
Again metaphor for completely giving up on trying to control everything, even sailing through life “belly up” in a vulnerable position, with such complete surrender that all we have is the air we breath as we give up everything else as we flow down the river of life, despite the inevitable obstacles and pain represented by the rocks scraping our backs.
And all the wasted nights And empty moments in our lives Flushed away as we sway with the rhythm Of the waves bobbing us up Crests fall to troughs As we feel our gills open up
Now that we’ve surrendered and confronted our pent up emotions and issues, we can finally heal from them and flush them away. As we go with the flow we’re now in rhythm with the the river of life.
And if the hook sets in The bottom of our lungs We’ll rip it out and lick the blood off With our tongues
Again if the inevitable bad things happen in life, this time we’ll confront our issues head on so we can heal, and not let the issues get pent up again.
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If you look back and focus on the disappointments of the past, you can be ravaged by despair, so it’s time to heal and move on from the past.
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We’re a vessel floating down the river of life. we can aim our ship to meet our goals in the future, but obsessing on the past will make it harder to get there.
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