Mephisto in the Water - Jenny Hval

This spring

Holds a killer in her claws

She comes up with the river that climbs the mountainside

She climbs up the ribs, climbs up the lips

With a swing in her hips

The springtime, the springtime is here

It sprung from my chest as the blood in the sudden stings, love

My heart is a beak in a mouth that sings

Hey, what do you see?

Hey, what do you hear?

The sound of the sea, or the sound of your heart?

Heart, heart, heart, heart, heart

(Are you counting yourself?)

Nervous, nervous instead

The water, the water, the waves

Release her, release her from me

Are you counting yourself?

The spring, the spring

I cover my ears (Cover my ears)

And open my mouth (Open my mouth)

The depth seeps into my bones

Like it’s floating in salt water

Ooh, water

When I slip into the water

Covered by the gentle waves

I follow a trail, a secret

Pattern that passes right through you

Driftwood tongue, but lips unsolving

A black vegetable soup of hair and teeth

I run out to you

I run out to them

I run out of bullets

I run out of you

I run out of you

I run out of you

I run out of you

I run out