You’ve become a stack of
Photos in a lock box
I keep buried in my head

Try to unfreeze the frozen frames
To put to rest your claims
You’d be no good for me

The wild tide
Was rising in the morning
The salt dried upon your skin
And you brought it in
And you brought it in
You brought it in

To melt the ice
That froze between us, I thought
It was holding us together
It just left us shivering

Don’t know why I felt like I was running out of time
As you fell in and out of my life
I was frozen somewhere, breathing crystalline air
Didn’t see your altered stare

Don’t know why I felt like I could never say goodbye
Standing ankle deep in receding tides
It came and went too fast, like a body
Becoming a shell after the crash

What once was alive and aflight in the mind
Has the lifeless stare of an angler’s eye
In the silence of the deepest seas
I can hear a gentle whisper escape through your teeth

Are you whispering for me? (Nikkita)
I wonder if it’s for me (Nikkita)

She holds a beating heart
She had it from the start
And it is only her’s
Behind two sets of drawn shades

Will she ever be found?
Is she underground, and
Running out of air now?
Running out of air now?
Shining black interior
Bottom of Lake Superior

The wild fire
Black and orange trees in moonlight
The flames were reaching canopies
When you set fire to the seas
When you set fire to the seas
Lung-scorching Summer breeze

Rising embers melting
Icy, glacial ceilings
Waters turn to steam
Enshadowing the queen
And she’s become my dream
And I’ve become the gleam (Nikkita) in her eye

In her eye (Nikkita)
In her eye (Nikkita)
In her eye (Nikkita)
Nikkita
Nikkita, Nikkita

You’re thinking over
Me going under
Crown made of flowers
Jest was a blunder

Those joined together
Never asunder
I saw the lightning
Where was the thunder?

Those joined together
Never asunder
Dodging the hatchet
To become the mother
Bury the axe
That put you asunder
You’re thinking over
Me going under

The wild tide
Was rising in the morning
The salt dried upon your skin
And you brought it in
And you brought it in
You brought it in

To melt the ice
That froze between us, I thought
It was holding us together
It just left us shivering

You reside in the desert of my heart
Always down the road, not too far
Hidden in plain sight
We’ll disappear into the moonless night

Not my first love, not the wild cat above
Not the voice behind the curtain drawn
No shady dream silhouette from a distant star
She’s near but yet so far

How near, how far?
How lost we are
How near, how far?
How lost we are
How near, how far?
How lost we are How near, how far?