Do You Ever Live? - Darlingside

Are you

Adrift?

Are you

Hands at 10 and 2?

Are you the spinning wheel

As it starts to reel?

Or the tallship on a summer lawn?

The tiller yaws, the ripple moving blade to blade

Makes a figure eight

Only

Only time

Only time will tell if you’re the sea itself

Or an echoing shell

Do you ever live?

(x3)

Are you

Someone else?

Are you someone else

Or is someone else you?

Oh, what can you do

If you’re the only passenger

You’ve come from where you’re coming to, but there may be

An unraveling seam

Wake up

Low-angle sun

Ivy runners have begun

To climb the starboard walls

And they start to call:

Do you ever live?

(x3)

Only

Only love

Only love will show us where we have to go

Set off

Into the vale

Make your way into the trail of intersecting shoots

One of which is you

Do you ever live?

(x5)