Esperanza Spalding - To Tide Us Over (Mouth) lyrics

Maybe your tongue's a ruddy seafloor
Silent in it's night
Just shy of the constellations you
Guide by whispers of light
Beneath the surface of sound
Sayings mirroring their time
What you mean to say burns silent
A star shined
Clear each night above the noisy
City in your mind

(Say what?) The taste of pearl in
The heart of your mind
(Say what?) 'Round every wound
You just needed some time

Sounding out the shapes now of
Your most beautiful dreams
The speaker inside you stands
To deliver the unseen
Send up words to tide us over
Bubbles in the flood from our new Atlantis
Somewhere beneath the sea of blood
I'm diving now to meet you
We can dance beneath the flagless moon

(Say what?) The taste of pearl in
The heart of your mind
(Say what?) 'Round every wound
You just needed some time

Finally the tide has come to lick away
Scars all chewed into the land
Rising out the sea, your words shine
Haloing the jagged rocks of splashing man
Chewing scars into the land
Rising out the sea, your words shine
Finally the tide has come

You just needed some time

Rising out the sea your words shine
Finally the tide has come to lick away
Scars all chewed into the land
Rising out the sea, your words shine haloing

Rising out the sea, your words shine
Finally the tide has come