Black & Blue - Being As An Ocean

Have you ever heard that love, is a metaphor

A metaphor for

The taste of the bottom

The fall to the floor

I fall to the floor

I remember me and you

I remember what you did

I remember being numb

I remember feeling sick

For the taste of the bottom, the fall to the floor

Have you ever heard love is a metaphor

For the way you failed me

And now I'm failing you

(I want you to listen very very carefully)

Like the serpents tongue, like the storm that shakes me

Like the hand that beats me, till I'm black and blue

Like the autumn chill, like the love that failed me

Let the earth remove me

Black and blue

Black and blue

Have you ever heard that death is a metaphor

A metaphor for..

What if I'm not good enough

What if I'm not strong enough

What if I'm not kind enough

For what happens next

For what happens then

What happens then

Like the serpents tongue, like the storm that shakes me

Like the hand that beats me, till I'm black and blue

Like the autumn chill, like the love that failed me

Let the earth remove me

Black and blue

Like the serpents tongue, like the storm that shakes me

The hand that beats me black and blue

Like the autumn chill..

(We can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or... we can fight our way back, into the light. And decline our hell, moving one inch at a time.)