Shell - Heather Nova

Look at me I’m smooth like a shell

Put your head down

You can hear the ocean

Hold my body — feel it roll

So much inside and it’s all been broken

You know it’s just one step out it could all be over

You know this could rip us out at the seams

I’m falling;

it’s all in your hands

Don’t let it wash away

I’m aching;

don’t take it all away

Breaking the shell again

Look at me I’m out on the edge

Put your hand here

See I’m bleeding

I can’t get it, get the light out —

I can’t seem to tear out the feeling

You know it’s just one step out it could all be over

You know this could rip us out at the seams

I’m falling;

it’s all in your hands

Don’t let it wash away

I’m aching;

don’t take it all away

Breaking the shell again

I am a box, I am a fish, I am a trail, I keep you warm

And I remember stripping down to meet the water

Wading out to where the sky turns under

My insides smooth like a shell

Like a shell …