The Church - Pure Chance lyrics

What chance of meeting so far out here
As if repeating what's never clear

The verdant meadows the smoky coil
The air and ether the boiling soil

I read your novel the names were switched
I heard you travel you must be rich
Those distant cities are safe and warm
Within their walls of chloroform

Home it's so far away now
Pure chance it's so far it's so far away now

My wife was warm but the water was cold
And she was young and the ocean was old

There were voices singing from under the sea
As I followed them down I
Felt them drowning me

What chance of meeting so long ago
Just for a fleeting ah, well you know

How unintentional a random whim
Coincidental a shallow thing

Home it's so far away now
Pure chance it's so far it's so far away now

My wife was soft the mountain was hard
Her skin was smooth the rocks were scarred

There were voices singing above in the sky
As I followed them up I was prepared to die