mermaid on board

Verse 1

You were drawing little maps

on the foggy window glass,

saying, “Turn the ship around,

there’s no future in the past.”

I was looking for a signal,

you were looking at the sea,

I was missing every warning

that was swimming next to me.

Pre-Chorus

The captain saw the lightning,

the sailors heard the song,

but I was busy proving

I was beautifully wrong.

Chorus

Missing the point

with a mermaid on board,

chasing the storm

while she opened the door.

She said, “Love is the ocean,

not the thing you’re dying for.”

I kept missing the point

with a mermaid on board.

Verse 2

She was combing out the moonlight

from her electric hair,

talking like a prophet

in a folding plastic chair.

She said, “You want an answer,

but you worship the wound.

You keep kissing the anchor

and blaming the moon.”

Chorus

Missing the point

with a mermaid on board,

chasing the storm

while she opened the door.

She said, “Love is the ocean,

not the thing you’re dying for.”

I kept missing the point

with a mermaid on board.

Bridge

Sirens in the engine,

salt inside the wires,

heaven in the lifeboat,

hell in my desires.

She laughed like a lighthouse

going out in the rain,

and I called it salvation

when it was only pain.

Final Chorus

Missing the point

with a mermaid on board,

throwing my heart

at the waves like a sword.

She said, “You had the miracle,

what were you searching for?”

I kept missing the point

with a mermaid on board.