Don’t Touch the Water

Don’t Touch the Water Whatever you hold keeps slipping Keys through fingers Names through teeth Whatever you chase keeps drifting You reach harder It learns to leave Don’t touch the water If you’re scared of waves Your hand is the reason The surface caves You call it chaos But you’re drawing the line Don’t touch the water If you want it fine Whatever you dodge keeps circling Quiet thunder Behind the hill Whatever you shove comes nearer Like you wrote it Against your will Don’t touch the water If you’re scared of waves Your hand is the reason The surface caves You call it chaos But you’re drawing the line Don’t touch the water If you want it fine So what if it’s shaking? (oh) So what if it spills? Maybe your stillness Is what’s making it ill Don’t touch the water Just to beg it stay Let it move around you Then move anyway You call it chaos I call it a sign Don’t touch the water Or jump in this time