[Verse 1]
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i'm charting oceans for the future, writing songs for all the waves
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i'll color in the coastline and you'll fill in the blanks
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until my ink and architecture soak through the page
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and my blueprints fall like anchors, drowning depth with their weight.
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and the veins above grow taut with the falling saints,
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the arteries like ropes choking on their age,
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and the submariner's wife has forgot his name
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'cause he's sunk himself away from the shores of grace.
[Chorus]
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[Verse 2]
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the horizon makes a fool out of my design,
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caught beneath the stitch between the ocean and the sky
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where i haven't got a single bottled note to rise
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where i haven't got a single flare to spark a sign
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but i swear a saw a sail carrying a light
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a heat that comes and drains these trenches dry
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a rescue that would drown my own device--
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and i think i see it now without the salt in my eyes.
[Bridge]
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'cause if i said that i could swim i'd be a liar.
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i'd be a liar, i'd be a liar, i'd be a liar
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i'd be a liar, i'd be a liar, i'd be a liar, i'd be a liar…
[Chorus]
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[Verse 3]
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the seas rend into orchards underneath my feet
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the dialogue resounds and i'm playing the lead
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my eyes will burn and oh! my throat will bleed
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for i will sing the beauty of this scene
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because you call me perfect and i call You blind
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'cause the picture and the definition don't align
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but Your saliva is the tie by which the pages bind
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and Your breath the text that lets our justice redefine.
[Chorus]
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[Outro]
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they call it a revival, but it's more like a birth
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when the marrow in my bones begins to mix with the earth
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and the water in my lungs mixes as mud with the dirt
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and "hallelujah!" is recorded as my first spoken word.