Hope or Float

Oh what an unfortunately

Unsurprising turn of events

Oh what a conundrum it presents

Swing with a white-knuckled grip

And cling to the pieces of ship

Or start in the water and end in the water?

The swells, after all

Intercept just the tip

Oh what on earth can I do

I want help you on sea

I want to help you unsee

I want to help

But if I help you

I can't help me

And if I go unhelped

What help can I be?

But what if everything is okay?

What if everything is easy for once?

Maybe everything can be easy for once

Maybe everything can just be okay

Yay

Maybe that isn't a psychopomp

Maybe that's our lifer Hoopoe

Maybe that little Grim Reaper

Will grow up to be a lighthouse keeper

Hope

Hope

Hope

Hope

Hope

Hope

I hit the deck

A cannonball from a diving board

On the crow's nest

Best to leave the stunts to the unprofessionals

Leave the stunts to the unprofessionals

Oh

Oh

Oh

Oh

Oh

The boat's

A hoax

A fantasy of control, a joke

See it for what it is

Now that it's broke

Now we avail ourselves of its

Splinters and rope

To impale ourselves

And hang ourselves

Hope is what kept us from learning to float

Oh

Oh

Oh

Float

Float

Float

Float

Float

But go ahead and offer me

Another free cruise on a shipwreck

How could I refuse?

Why can't I refuse?

While there is life, there is hope

So

Why, for the life of me, can't I just float?

Hope

Hope

Hope

Hope

Hope

As if the water I fear is not the water I bathe in