Andrea Gibson - Jellyfish lyrics

When the astronaut told me
She needed more space
I dropped my pants in the
Floor of the grocery store
Hoping I could moon her into staying

Most of us will do anything to
Try and prove we are enough
To prove our shine is no Hollywood
Our stars are not just actors
To prove the twinkle in our eye
Isn't an infection

I can look in any direction and
Say "that's the way to go"
But, I've learned this is how to stay
Skipping moon rocks across my own puddle dive
Even when I've been clipped
From the mothership so I can still say
I bet you smell like butterfly



But, I bet you dream cocoon
And I bet you never say the word ‘fuck’
But we all know you do

My heart is a runway
I’ve been staring at this sky
Since my love took off
Will you be my friend?
Will you poem me a porch swing?
Will you punch me in the tough, just once?

I'm ready to reset my bones
Ready to swing set my ribcage
So the next time somebody pushes me away
I’ll swing right back to that
Chisel with my marble spine
Go ahead, build me

Do you ever think about God’s ears?
Wonder if the levee broke her promise?
Wonder if the wrecking ball was
Trying to run it's fingers
Soft across the bricks
But it's head was just too heavy?

Before you become my friend
Picnic with my rubble
Road trip with everyone I left in the dust
Do the laundry from the last
Time I was loaded

How she found my trigger and we woke
With the sheets pulled above our heads
Praying the mortician could make us pretty
Y'all, none of us are pretty

But our ugly has an alibi
And our gorgeous has a sand collection
Or two harmonicas we keep blowing off
For that flute we carve from our wrists
Put your lips here

Tell me there is music in my blood
Then tell me there is more in my light
Hang me chandelier from the last night
I believed this life had to hurt so much

I am done kneeling in the
Church of steepled smokestacks
Done stargazing my own train crash

Give me wind sprints
Tell me my fingerprints are the shape
Of ripples on a frozen lake
Tell me my coal mind will
Never collapse on my heart
I’ll tell you these poems
They are my birthmarks

And I came this close to
Having them removed once
Even kept that voice-box cutter hidden in my
Shoe the day that flight took off
But the runway it’s made of marble
Made of gust made of windmill
Made of salt

And there is a sea of hope-chest
In every word I speak
Praying to be open by the night
With it's belly full yield
Pull the shield from my wingspan
Teach me why the candle wax says
Thank you to the flame
Tell me how your mother says your
Name like an orchard going bloom

A doctor once told me I feel too much
I said so does God
That’s why you can see the
Grand Canyon from the moon
We are a telescope, a riverbed
We are empty lockets melting into gold
We are hearts breaking bread

Fold me in your napkin poem
Pull the tinsel from my hair from all
The pasts I cannot let go
My gills are adjusting to the air
The story husk peeled from my bones
My bones know the song of our tears
Dripping from the faucet
Tick-ticking like a metronome

I know there is better music
Even in this cabin full of fever
Tonight I’m catching nothing but
The lightning bug my body is a mason jar
Transparent as a jellyfish

I wish for a heart you
Can see straight through
For a voice that glows in the dark
And a few really good friends
To skip moon rocks to