I wake up soaking in a cold sweat
I wake up shaking from a strange dream
As though our house had been flooded by rain
And only you and I had made it out alive
And now above us, only water for miles
And above us, whales waving their tales
And the oxygen is not enough for two,
And I'm lying in the dark.
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I'm listening to our breath,
Just listening to our breath,
I'd never thought the two of us,
Had between us just this common breath
One breath.
I am trying to unlearn how to breathe,
So that I could for a moment give you
This gas which we never valued much
But you sleep and don't know
That above us, only water for miles,
That above us, whales waving their tales,
And the oxygen is not enough for two,
And I'm lying in the dark.