Eden

from We Were Giants Once by Shapes in the Water

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My bare feet could not make enough sound
And slipped far too easily down
The stairs to gardens, so desperately grown
With seeds we found lying around, and thought would make a nice home

But there were far too many flaws
Every almost perfect bloom had a couple petals gone
We swept up a few that seemed good enough to keep
And pressed to pages blank as birth, to hide under the dirt

Carve out your plot
And grow whatever you know how
And keep whatever breaks the ground
‘Cause it seems better tending
To a window sill plant
Than fields of flowers you’ll forget
So calm down

We shored up our shrinking fields
To keep what flowers we could steal
And each wave came
Pulled soil away
Left roots just floating in its place
Through hard rain
Put our tools away
Said we should calm down for a change

Calm down
Calm down

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from We Were Giants Once, released May 14, 2019

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