[Verse 1]
I mailed a blue spoon to the mayor of sleep
He sent back a door with a number too deep
The hallway was folded inside of my shoe
I asked it for weather, it answered, “A shoe”
[Pre-Chorus]
The ceiling keeps lowering
My name has four corners
I swallow a question
It grows little horns
[Chorus]
Don’t explain the red ocean
It is busy becoming a chair
I put both hands on the silence
And found somebody else standing there
Don’t explain, don’t explain
The answer is wearing my face
I ran from the room in a circle
And arrived at the same empty place
[Verse 2]
A trumpet was crying beneath the sink
The faucet said, “Maybe,” then started to blink
My left eye remembered a house made of bread
My right eye was busy convincing the dead
[Pre-Chorus]
The calendar’s breathing
The floor has a fever
I borrowed tomorrow
It vanished through neither
[Chorus]
Don’t explain the red ocean
It is busy becoming a chair
I put both hands on the silence
And found somebody else standing there
Don’t explain, don’t explain
The answer is wearing my face
I ran from the room in a circle
And arrived at the same empty place
[Bridge]
If the walls are asleep, why are they counting?
If the clock has no hands, why am I late?
There’s a small black sun in the kitchen
And it keeps asking me to translate
I translated it into a window
The window translated to rain
The rain put a coat on the doorway
And walked out carrying my name
[Final Chorus]
Don’t explain the red ocean
Let it turn into furniture there
I put both hands on the silence
It put both hands in my hair
Don’t explain, don’t explain
The answer has fallen apart
I ran from the room in a circle
And the circle was larger than my heart
[Outro]
The spoon is a lighthouse
The door is a lung
The trumpet forgets me
The song has begun