Human Kite Lyrics - Singles - Aeon Now

Once I woke to find a splinter 

forgotten in my northern eye 

scratched and scribbled to remove it 

but it was shy so warm inside 

tried my best to re-remember 

what foe or friend had placed it there 

wading through the hall of records 

the sand and sea beneath my hair 

I was lost and floating frantic 

through such piles of ancient grime 

I had never learned to swim in 

my own kaleidoscopic mind 

always stuck to simpler waters 

soft push and pull of others' tides 

shallow blues and lofty hazels 

the only riddles I'd dare ride 

though when I confront the mirror 

the look she gives me is black as night 

deeper than our mother ocean 

absorbing every speck of light 

Once I dreamed the end of winter 

was hidden in my southern eye 

I clicked my teeth and asked for spring 

but she was wilting closed as ice 

I tried to warm her by the flame 

that leaped out of my northern stare 

lacing lashes through the ashes 

powdered gray compressed my care 

I was hidden between pages 

obsessing over abstract time 

between all the roman numerals 

a ticking face so far from mine 

kept my wings all folded under 

moving within the grid and guide 

but today I'll test my edges 

and fall or free from off the side 

with the moon I will uncover 

my waxing luminescent sight 

for I am just a constellation 

and lightning flies this human kite