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Your Legs Have Grown Too Long

from Somewhere That You've Been by The Ocean Floor

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Fix my eyes, hypnotized,
I found out
I realize...

That diving board, diving board there's a place for you in dreams
You answer to the water's call beneath the sunlight's beam
And diving board, diving board when I'm too scared to start
You're the match that lights the spark beneath my driftwood heart

If I see someone who I feel is looking through
My soul and makes a bee-line for my eyes
I dart from the fire manifesting a choir
And I climb to the procession that applies
Spring has come again
And fall's the only end
It's the only place I know of to begin

When I was young my mother took me to the place where I was born
Dug up her wedding dress and blindly pointed fingers scarred with scorn
Then threw it at my head and asked me,
"How could you have gone so wrong?
The costume couldn't fit and the life that goes with it
And It's not because your legs have grown too long
And you know I'm never wrong."

But diving board, diving board
Your life is but a dream
That takes me where I'd love to go
Beneath the sunlight's beam
Oh and swimming pool, swimming pool
I'll meet you when I'm through
This long and lonely day of work I'll rest inside of you

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from Somewhere That You've Been, released July 9, 2013

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