Landlocked

All I've condemned catches up with me eventually

All self-betrayal is leading me toward dignity

All I've ever known will always be a mystery

A future sewn into its own memory

Just like a myth, it is bound by the lesson

Cross those flames or be consumed by lineage

Cresting wave, wash away these ancient tears

And when it breaks, send my sister to braid my hair

This road was once a river

This home an orange grove

And where the factories are built

Painted horses roamed

Coyotes sing with car alarms in the land of endless sky

She said she didn't see the ocean until she was twenty-five

Time like a lock, a chain, a rope, a three hundred pound chest

I shove it in the attic where the lark now builds her nest

You said it best when you told me to be quiet

In that big field, between history and harvest

All we have is what we have forgiven

Landlocked in love, it's the past that outlives us