Miles From The Sea - Calexico

Finding fossils on the hillside

While the sun strikes him down to his knees

Where his great grandfather’s sweat

Swallowed up left for dust

Just to escape push the pain to right

Sketches a wave in the soil

One drop on his dry, dry lips

Before he goes inflamed and insane

Dreams about swimming

Miles away from the sea

Dreams about swimming

And the moon brings him back

Dreams about swimming

Miles away from the sea

While the moon stems the tide in his heart

Cast iron and recall

The ore pouring deep in the vein

As the years of searing heat, ‘till all is just salt

That is left in the bed where he sleeps

Dreams about swimming

Miles away from the sea

Dreams about swimming

Though he’s miles from the sea

Dreams about falling

From the sky through the sea

Dreams about drowning

While the moon looks away

History unheard

Silent like the waves

A graveyard for the giants

That was his eye, dry is his heart

Dreams about swimming

Miles away from the sea

Dreams about swimming

Though he’s miles from the sea

Dreams about falling

From the sky through the sea

While the moon lays out a bed

Of bones to call home