The Seafloor

Searching for hope

We tumble down the continental slope

And reach the seafloor

Far from sunlight

We dark-adapt in love's uneasy night

Here on the seafloor

Small creatures cling

Uncouple from the rocks without a cry

Here on the seafloor

One painful thing will never be unheard

But now you cradle me in a peaceful word

We are not in the early days

Brought low by tumultuous forces

We are not in the bluebell field

With our foreheads together like horses

We are not in the sweet hotel

Where nothing was untrue

And I mourned the violence that was done to you

And yet somehow

You are more striking, more bewitching now

Strolling the seafloor

You say to me

"I can't be with you, but I need to be"

I still adore you

We are not at your bedroom window

Observing the waddling crow

We are here in this limpid kingdom

Where everything is aglow

We are not on the edge of fear

I don't care to remember when

But we had to go there to come here

Grow enchanted all over again

Here on the seafloor

Here on the seafloor

Here on the seafloor

Here on the seafloor

(Here on the seafloor) these underwater mountains

(Here on the seafloor) in this abyss of tears

(Here on the seafloor) are more staggering than any seen on land

You and I behold them hand in hand