Saturation Diver letra

A flash above you, fading
The end of days arrived and went
Left you unselected, tethered down
A promise kept, denied
Resurrecting angels high above
Would save from drowning
A saturation diver
Ankles tangled, helpless in the line

And you wonder
Will your dead self show
The years you spent avoidant and dissociating?
Sliding down the slope
Were you pressured and extorted?
Was it some force beyond control
Or you alone?

A TV, muted, plays disaster films inside an empty home
Two brothers, standing in a wide shot
Staring downward in the snow

At the mercy of the current
Body turns underwater
Swallows all of it
Tumble in the flow
Frames flicker, glowing backwards as you go
Every moment past projected
In the hidden tunnels home

There's the basement of your parents
Your siblings on the staircase
The ice sheets on the pavement
Where you, drifting sideways, crashed into the snow
To you, there shaving
When the mirror showed a stranger
You felt sure he looked familiar
Now you wake on the embankment
All alone

A close-up, focused on a woman's face
Awake late on her phone
All things that everybody knows
A muted TV plays disaster films
But nobody's at home

Life eternal in repose
A body floating in the creek below
Three fires burning in the snow
All things that everybody knows
All life eternal in repose
The way the bodies started glowing
All around you, floating upward
On the ground below
No beam of light to take you home

La Dispute - Letras

• 35
• A
• A Broken Jar
• A Departure
• A Letter
• A Poem
• A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
• All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
• Andria
• Anxiety Panorama
• Autofiction detail
• Bury Your Flames
• Damaged Goods
• Edit Your Hometown
• Edward Benz, 27 Times
• Eight
• Eleven
• End Times Sermon
• Environmental Catastrophe Film
• Extraordinary Dinner Party
• Fairmount
• Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
• First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
• Five
• Footsteps At The Pond
• For Mayor in Splitsville
• Four
• Fulton Street I
• Fulton Street Ii
• Future Wars
• Harder Harmonies
• He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
• How I Feel
• Hudsonville Mi
• I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In
• I See Everything
• I Shaved My Head
• In Northern Michigan
• King Park
• Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
• Last Blues
• Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
• Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
• New Storms For Older Lovers
• Nine
• No One Was Driving The Car
• Nobody, Not Even the Rain
• Objects In Space
• One
• Only Everything Below
• Rhodonite And Grief
• Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
• Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
• Said the King To the River
• Saturation Diver
• Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
• See You In Vancouver
• Self-Portrait Backwards
• Seven
• Shall Never Lose It's Power
• Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
• Six
• St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
• Stay Happy There
• Steve
• Such Small Hands
• Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
• Ten
• The Castle Builders
• The Child We Lost
• The Field
• The Last Lost Continent
• The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
• The Surgeon And The Scientist
• Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
• There You Are (Hiding Place)
• Thirteen
• Three
• To Withstand The Force Of Storms
• Top-Sellers Banquet
• Twas The Night Before Christmas
• Twelve
• Two
• Untitled
• View From Our Bedroom Window
• Why It Scares Me
• Woman (In Mirror)
• Woman (Reading)
• You And I In Unison
• You Ascendant