Swimming Bird

Swimming Bird

Pandering time for oh…
Whatever’s sake I do
Wonder if what I’m told
Is the same as what’s really true

You are the swimming bird from my dreams
Slipping to everyone’s hands
To keep away from me

I’m not the phantom who
They seem to think I am
Just a miscreation
Forged in a demon’s land

I am the villain who would save the day
Shifting through everyone’s hands
To keep the beast at bay

And I try to stay
Away from the demon’s green eye
But I’m led astray
By the whispers that circle my mind
Still I know
There’s something there to find

Skittish upon the handle
Of confrontation’s sake
Engrossed in all that would strangle you
From your prolific fate

You are the swimming bird to whom I scream
Darling you’re drowning
In the grasps of fifty other dreams

And I try to stay
Away from the demon’s green eye
But I’m led astray
By the whispers that circle my mind
Still I know
There’s something there to find

I’m losing capacity
For my resigned serenity
If you keep diving
You’re gonna lose your way

I apprehend what you might say
Expect me to believe
But if you don’t come through some day
I’m gonna climb – away

I am the villain who would save the day
Shifting through one hundred hands
To keep the beast at bay