Mainland

I said I'm just a surfer

To my base desires

She said, I will tell you a few things free of charge

Stay clear of jagged rocks

Tread careful at the higher level

This ain't no game

But you can play

If that's what you want

Think she said

We are just paper boats

Bobbing adrift, afloat

Walk in till the fortune shove us

Where they will

Woke up huffing on the shore

Cold out cried a broken sun

Back on the mainland

The chimps were coming up

Trumps

And all I saw was burning blue

Fading into blonde and white

Way out past the rotten pier

Out to the upper water

Sun on the red roof city

And her performer's daughter

Back on the mainland

Back on the mainland

Cool exchange was rolling over

Black sky was getting lower

On golden sand

We stared into the haze

Ocean merging with sky

We talked about the land of the four mothers

Now that we've sheltered again

It would be funny if it didn't make you want to cry

This is just the bed we've woken up in

And all I saw was burning blue

Fading into blonde and white

Way out past the rotten pier

Out the ocean water

Sun on the red roof city

And her performer's daughter

Back on the mainland

Back on the mainland

Cool exchange was rolling over

Black sky was getting lower

Green trees were falling over

As we survive

Middle coming over the line

Waking and feeling fine

Her eyes big and blind

Falling through all of the earth

Dreaming up on the edge

Being impossible beings