To Tide Us Over - Esperanza Spalding

Maybe your tongue’s a ruddy seafloor, silent in its 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