CASPER (with Maruja)

I wanna go somewhere

Why can’t we just go somewhere?

Can we go somewhere that waits

That won’t move away from us, from us

Ohhh

There’s a vulnerable feeling

Ohh, woahh

That’s a place that ain’t leaving, leaving

The answers I found

Over exposed

You were born with a lot to correct

You were born with a puzzle to solve

You’re not high

You just became a child

Returned to a path, hiding in overgrown grass

If you didn’t chase it

It would have stayed still

The horizon is a prey-like animal

That preys on men who pray like animals

And now it takes form, and takes flight

It can take you anywhere you like

Open your hand and your palm

Drown out the countdown to the alarm

The line curves into a path through clouds

The tail wrapped in waves, its mouth covered in sky

I prayed one last time

But I didn’t know

It can smell fear on your breath

And the sweat in the hands of a man

Who has never forgiven himself

And the answers I so desperately crave

Will cover me in the shape of a cave

Removing a stone from a roof held together with nothing but tension

I could end the world with one slip from the other side of the ceiling

I accept your answer

I was just a pretender

Who learned how to surrender

At least I know something you won’t

In the bigger picture where I extend beyond the frame

Your world will end at home

And to you that will be good enough

My world ends so much worse

And so much harder

To me that is better

To it we’re the same

And to everyone

To everyone

The captain stands alone

Arms to the sky

The symphony of loneliness unheard upon its own

He cracks a bottle

It’s the only friend he knows

Years of no expression left him bitter, comatose

The rain is torrential

He gives a toothless grin

About to meet the devil

Projections from within

Lighting strikes the ocean

Illuminating fears

The depth reflects his mind, his time is getting near

Counting every moment

Wish away the minutes

Waves as big as mountains

Strung out to his limits

The blankness of oblivion

Reality sinks in

Consumed by the roar of fear

A thousand voices grin

Heart pounding

He finishes the bottle

Climbs up to the sail, clutching, wishing for tomorrow

While all his crew were taken

Lost to the ocean

The ghost of his friends begin to haunt him

Spirit broken

Vanish like the stars on a dark misty night

Evil housed the wind as it barked in his mind

The thunder splitting ear drums

Like the sound of metal snapping

Because fate is getting closer, faith was always lacking

Time is of the essence

Embrace or let it go

A solace inside courage

Intuition always known but the darkness so consuming

The only life he’s shown

Is that heaven’s open wide

It’s hell on earth he knows