Nautical Twilight - Tori Amos

As the day gave way

To nautical twilight

I turned

My back on

The force of which I was made

I abandoned it

Rupturing the delicate balance

When I left my world for his

Day after day

As my city fades

And is swallowed by his sea

She is boundless

Even breaking on the beach

Every hour commenced

No fusion and fission

Can unify or drive a force to split

He has been possessed

To drink of the spices

From the east by his liquid mistress

Which then pushed me into the lair

Of uranium, she divides time between

Greed and his twin, tyranny

Day after day

Cities all betrayed

And the earth, his songs lay their blade

She is boundless

But by then she has been frayed

As the night gives way

To nautical dawn I can see

I must activate the force of which I’m made