Immaculate - Shearwater

Johnny, get a hold of your life

Wherever I go, your face is in front of me

You aren’t breathing

Holding up the end of the line

If there ever was a crack in the ice, you don’t believe in it

You are a diamond, set

On an immaculate height

Safe

Belly up and under the wire

Lying awake in the hours and the emptiness

Only to run from the days we are living in

You only get a look at your life when you’re leaving it

And in the silences

When you’re arrested in flight

When you lie on your back

With your eyes on the firmament

Your burning mouth, your blazing eyes

Come on!

If you believe in it

It’s a respectable life

Go police all the beats

You’ll find nothing is innocent

Johnny, get a hold of your life

Stop at the edge till the animus drains away

Or follow the loneliest road

Run in the dark till a light comes screaming in

Through the silences

You are alone on the ice

And you stand on the brakes

To find nothing is happening