**[Intro]**
(Sparse, off-kilter piano, atmospheric drone, polyrhythmic drums enter slowly)
The planks are splitting
And I keep walking
**[Verse 1]**
I see them on the pier every morning
Liars with their lines cast wide
Cheaters with their nets pulled tight
Overfishing, overpricing, undercutting the tide
I put up a sign that said "For free"
Take all that you need
'Til it's gone, 'til it's gone
And discard whom you please
I tried to carry honesty
But the weight of it bent my spine
When no one else around me
Even bothers to try
**[Chorus]**
It's a long walk off a short pier
When your steps are too heavy to steer
The people are smiling, the wood is giving way
And I confuse their deceit for love every day
Anything for a feeling
Anything for a thread
To tether me to the living
Before I'm underfed
**[Verse 2]**
Lying by omission to myself
Is a habit I can't break
I know they're taking what I have
But I let them for goodness' sake
I confuse the taking with the holding
I confuse the theft with the touch
Anything to feel something
Even if it's not that much
**[Bridge]**
(Slowed, atmospheric, almost spoken)
If I carried this dread out past the break
Pushed it over the edge of the wake
I could have been through with it
I could have been through
But no one even bothered to show
No one came to watch me go
So I did what I should have thought through
And I'm still here, still here, still here
**[Chorus]**
It's a long walk off a short pier
When your steps are too heavy to steer
The people are smiling, the wood is giving way
And I confuse their deceit for love every day
**[Outro]**
(Drums drop out, just piano and synth drone)
I'd rather take my chances
In a sad little canoe
Drifting out past the break
With nothing left to prove
Nothing left to prove
Nothing left to prove
(Piano note rings out, silence)
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