overlooking the worst you've seen
along the piers an evil shaft of rain
everything dies and we alive
hurtle on into this great refrain
overlooking everything
that made it matter
that made it seem
like a real sequence of events
something we couldn't --second guess

overlooking the hearts and minds
and the lines play out and we don't feel the tug
of anything we couldn't find
without a hook on the end of the line

and we invent what we can't find
And in the dark we can see everything
with crystal clarity
all of it down to the space between

overlooking the scattered stars
and the random utterance of the mouths
where we are for now
we could hear it in the pitch distorted takes we had to sing through gritted teeth
and lightning lights up the night
and we are silently imploding

overlooking if you please
and the way they bounced where we slipped the reins
overlooking on bended knee
yeah the way they bounced where we slipped the reins
and we felt our own souls flying
through the canopy...

and you were watching from a safe distance
not saying anything
you were laughing at your own discomfort
the things between the things between the things that make the things that we could see

And then I looked up and it was as if we'd never been
it was as if we'd never been

overlooking the harbor lights
and our faces fell when we said goodbye
overlooking the deep black sea
with its stupid silent beckoning
overlooking this sweet delight
yeah our faces fell when we said goodbye
and we hadn't even noticed it was night