Bathe - Hailaker

Mathematics

In the nature of your numbers

On an axis, on an axis

Hidden aboard, the words you swore

Were gone

Across a map

The behavior of your neighbours

I won’t go, I’m lost without

Bathe

In/out

(oh, she’d know how…)

She bore the breadth

In the force and all awaited

I’m relaxed, now, I’m relaxed now

You’re numb and you walk

You eat, you’re rising on

Well, the fact is

In the vapour and the paper

I won’t slow enough to mask

Fade

In/out

Pray, all told

The waves go slow

You wade on home

You’re safe and sound

Wake, unfold

The days follow

You stayed with us

Hollowed out

Bathe out the boredom

You’re a forest, you’re

Safe and sound

Drain out the chorus

I’m a tourist, I’m

Hollowed out

In and of itself

The denim would be fraying now

Fraying now

We were not ourselves

Death-defying, wearing out