Carbon Dated Love

From Topanga to the sea You took a walk with me To be free To be free Halfway down the trail We were sprung from our jail I see a whale You fill your pail With the spirits of the bees And the heat above the trees And you love flowers You feel their powers And this old fern is my friend Our love will never end Carbon dated love Tragedies unfold My heart's made out of coal Carbon dated love And there's a fossil of a fern When we open up the earth Still glowing green Down in the seam And there's three hundred years of coal But it took so long to grow Black as pitch It flipped the switch And in the dungeon down below A forgotten miner's glove Waits its turn Just like the fern And this old fern is my friend Our love will never end Carbon dated love Tragedies unfold My heart's made out of coal Carbon dated love It started in the sun But when we were done The shade had taken hold Under cottonwood trees The wet canyon breeze Mud seeps through our clothes When we finally reached the shore There stood an open door Out in the foam Calling us home Finally feeling brave We stepped into the waves We jumped right through Just me and you And this old fern is my friend Our love will never end Carbon dated love Tragedies unfold My heart's made out of coal Carbon dated love Carbon dated love