Listen
Of all the things you're about to lose
This will be the most painful
Down in the floodplains waiting on a cure
Blessed be the water, may the water make us pure
Forms will be unborn in the mirror within the mirror
Rejoice now, rejoice now
The reckoning is here
Wake and I have been reborn
The tide concedes that homely shore and I am
Benighted, all my lines unlearned
Cry out, will God, or somebody
Please turn the light on?
Restore me to that empty room
Expands out like hot air balloons
A woman comes, she brings me food
I shit the bed in solitude
My life one brief unbroken loop
Goes round and round with nothing left to hold onto
But if there's nothing, if there's nothing
Then what's that song keeps hounding me?
In the still dark of the morning
Just one more cradle down the creek
Au revoir my little memories
And tell me
This is not your loss
This is your offering
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Of all the things you're about to lose
This will be the most painful
Blessed be the water, may the water make us pure
Forms will be unborn in the mirror within the mirror
Rejoice now, rejoice now
The reckoning is here
The tide concedes that homely shore and I am
Benighted, all my lines unlearned
Cry out, will God, or somebody
Please turn the light on?
Restore me to that empty room
Expands out like hot air balloons
A woman comes, she brings me food
I shit the bed in solitude
My life one brief unbroken loop
Goes round and round with nothing left to hold onto
Then what's that song keeps hounding me?
In the still dark of the morning
Just one more cradle down the creek
Au revoir my little memories
And tell me
This is not your loss
This is your offering
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
Asa nisi masa
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The phrase repeated at the end, "asa nisi masa," comes from the movie 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini. Though it has no direct translation, it is assumed to be a "Pig Latin" variation of the word "anima," which is Italian for soul. Interesting source material...