Johnny Viola - Shearwater

If you could ring the sky like a bell

Even such a sound would never suffice

If you could bang the world like a drum

It would only show it was hollow inside

And your love, it slips behind a little cloud

And your eyes are veiled

Is there a medical term for a heart that’s been removed?

If you could wring the hours and the days

Of all their lives, I think you would find

That the lovely faces crash like a wave

Upon a shore so frozen and white

And as love, it slips behind that little cloud

The snow is like a feathery down

When your heart has been removed

And as love departs your life

Like silvery birds that leave the coast

Your eyes are as wild and lifeless as the moon