THE DRAGON CALLS ME UNDER

I catch the light in the summertime

That cracks and splits the rumbling sky

Rain pours from the rocky cliffs

And rushes with the rivers

The mountainsides are lush and green

Along the streams, the thrushes sing

The west wind brings the low tide in

The willows touch the river

The summer frogs are beckoning

I lift my arms up, as I spin

I'm dizzy like a butterfly

Pulled into the night

All the world, it is asleep

Walking through an ancient dream

In my dreams, I'm growing fins

And pushing up the river

I push against the water, west

My skin is cold, my hands are webbed

The river lets me take a breath

My blood burns hot like fire

My skin, it shines with silver scales

I kick and thrash my mighty tail

The land, it shrinks; the sea, it swells

I wake the water dragon

His body runs for miles and miles

His song is old, his eyes are wild

He finds me diving in my sleep

And I follow him down

Destruction taught me how to swim

The master passing on his dream

He holds a treasure in his chest

Unmatched by any world

The fisherman have cast their nests

Pushing up the river, west

The moon is waking from her sleep

Lifting her tired eyes

The sky is filled with butterflies

Their white wings lift the heavy night

The spider weaves her silver web

The thunder shakes the night

My ears roar with a maddening sound

The mighty river holds me down

I sink so far down through the mud

I'm breaking through the surface

The dragon finds me in the stream

By the lightning of a fever dream

He holds a treasure in his chest

Unmatched by any world

I lift my arms up, as I spin

A butterfly caught in the wind

In summer's silver web, I'm caught

The dragon calls me under.