TIME TRAVELLING - Erica Buettner

TIME TRAVELLING - Erica Buettner
Crying won't get you a dime
But you won't get a dime without crying
Life's greatest balancing act
Is to sell fewer tears than you're buying
At the fountains of sorrow
You don't make a wish
Everyone learns how to swim like a fish
You save all your pennies for a luckier tide
If wishes were horses then beggars would ride
But we will stay afloat
Drop our hearts like anchors and rock rock like the boat
My love was born with gills
A cavernous space that creates restores and refills
In the city the walls learn to talk
Screaming slogans in neon and chalk
People cast their beliefs like a stone
That betrays but won't leave you alone
And the cars all fly past
In a hot metal flash
It's the speed at which moments
Belong to the past
And the flood that keeps coming
And alarms that won't ring
Are the reasons that I started time travelling
I am with you in heart and in mind
I am with you in and out of time
We are rising and rolling like waves
Through the dust and the grind and the grime
You told me that time functions just like a coil
And bodies are roots if they just pierce the soil
So let us lie down in the soft fertile ground
And stare up the center of time going round
We will stay afloat
Drop our hearts like anchors and rock
Rock like the boat
My love was born with gills
A cavernous space that creates restores and refills