Under the Surface (feat. Alice Wallace & Caitlin Cannon)

Ive got a little secret, I've always had to keep it

Don't know how long, but long enough

The centuries keep adding up

And if anyone discovered it, They'd sell me to the circuses

Or lock me up inside zoo

Just like my poor old friend Shamu

So I've been hiding in plain sight, Making sure that I stay dry

Declining invitations

To parties and vacations

Barbecue or birthday bash, By swimming pools where I'll get splashed

And risk exposing what I am

And get deported from the land

Still waters run deep, you can't always see it when somebody's hurtin'

It takes the bravest face to bear the weight of the heaviest burden

Cut me and I'll bleed, I'm still a person

We're not all that different under the surface

History's not been kind to us, We shipwrecked brave Odysseus

Beware the siren song of old

As if we feed on sailor souls

Columbus thought he saw us too, A man so easily confused

Mistaking us for manatees

It's more like Daryl Hannah, see

But my legs don't go on for on for days, When I come over I can't stay

For caviar, expensive wine

Pisces isn't just my sign

But who could ever understand, Why I sleep on kelp and sand

A good book and a bubble bath

And I become my better half

Still waters run deep, you can't always see when somebody's hurtin'

It takes the bravest face to hide the weight of the heaviest burden

Cut me and I'll bleed, I'm still a person

We're not all that different under the surface