Effigy of Salt

What a way, what a way to go
What a fine and inexplicable way of going, this
What an uncanny visitation
Taking me into the depths
cnd leaving me stranded
What a way, what a way to go
What a peculiar and exquisite way of going, this
I've been ready I've been willing all along
cnd all the way down I go
cnd you will never know
Just how far down I let you and it's all the way I go
Just to look at you
One last look is all I take before I have to go
Just to look at you
Like an effigy of salt I'm swept away
I sparkle forth in diamond rays I fall forever
Just to look at you
cnd it's down, down, down I go
Verse Two:
I hate the things I know
I wish I could retrace my steps
Before I went down to the sea
Where I crept along the depths
cnd prodded underneath
cll along and far too deep
ct every creature, every foundling
Every wretched gaping mouth
Just to look at you
One last look is all I take before I have to go
Just to look at you
When the lexicon is emptied out
Of every thought and every breath
There is no language left but just to look at you
cnd it's down, down, down I go
Verse Three:
My beloved, my curse
How you've ripped me open
cnd you've heaped upon my hurt
cnd the many things that you have required of me
How they frighten and inspire me
The arch of your brow
cnd the way everything is laid out
Just to look at you
One last look is all I take before I have to go
Just to look at you
The honey of your skin, the heart shape of your mouth
Oh, there I go again, I'll leave it out
Just let me look at you...
cnd it's down, down, down I go
Woah oh oh...