Sphagnum Esplanade - the Shins

How lovely a find

That’s entered my mind

Along this mossy trail

How coyly it hides

The truth about how it is

We can’t ask how

Crowds jump to their death

From the bridge as I drive by tonight

And they’ve missed out on it all

The whole gist there as they fall

You’re not expected to know why it’s such a short time

And there are stanzas never meant to rhyme

Far better I find

It is when we try to span

The weird divide

With no real rationale

We step out of bounds

And think and escape their lies

We’ve marched so long

And we’ve much farther than we’ve gone to go

We’re making a new ship

Christen it for the trip

With a toddler at the helm this time

And there are things we never will define

Crowds jump to their deaths

From the bridge as I drive by tonight

And they missed out on it all

The whole gist there as they fall

You’re not expected to know why it’s such a short time

And there are things we never will define