It was intelligence I know it so

They tried to sell it as an act of woe

Fell apart, like the party line

An aberration or forgotten gene

The sea that called them:

A morning piss green

To the arc went your father

In reverse reptile

Did you watch it all alone?

Every corner of the earth

Their collars made of surf and sand

The vanguard submerges

Just a memory to disown

Let the television ponder

I would never let you wander so far

Was it an error in a higher code?

The final lyric of a cosmic ode?

In the cold, by an old coast

In reverse reptile

Return to the riverbed

Did you watch it all alone?

Every corner of the earth

Their collars made of surf and sand

The vanguard submerges

Just a memory to disown

Let the television ponder

I would never let you wander so far

Have you ever met a prisoner

Never wanting to be freed?

Could you ever take a million

From civilian to the sea?

They were sightless as a spiteful

Hidden signal turned the key

And they pray not to a God

But to an ancient malady

Just a memory to disown

Let the television ponder

I would never let

You wander so far

Have you ever met a prisoner

Never wanting to be freed?

Could you ever take a million

From civilian to the sea?

They were sightless as a spiteful

Hidden signal turned the key

And they pray not to a God

But to an ancient malady