Alix Olson - Beautiful Bones lyrics

So, is this what it comes down to At the hot center of our globe Past the ice age, past the stone What it comes down to it seems is survival And that is you versus me, somehow Two species headlocked in some primitive pa**ion Both knowing natural selection is bound to bring one of them down And when we said we loved, we took each other at our word I mean who were you and I to clarify the context of that verb And so locked deep inside that safety box grew this fear of each other Like how our mouths would cross their arms and sit and sneer at each other You know, a dragon bears her teeth when she is all out of fire And we were all out of fire, i guess, by then Frozen in good intention Little icicles of hope clinging to our lips But no sound would come out, only little puffs of breath And we licked each other's wounds until our tongues were iron-clad And mine crawled into my lungs, and hung there, heavy and sad And evolution, it seemed, loomed on the horizon As we sauntered past the dinosaurs who all had their eyes on us And the continent that we'd invented, seemed to much to prove So we scampered to the edges, there was nowhere else to move So, i guess this is a sorry for my tedious reductions My arrogant a**umptions that life should fit on a page And i guess this is a thank you for reminding me That we never intended to be silver screen h**nes So it's not like we screwed up and got the story line all wrong Folks like us we tend to make the plot up as we go along And perhaps that is the only habit that will stave off our extinction So I name that habit freedom and I claim it as a privilege For these two species headlocked and hurdling headstrong through our history And piecing back the beautiful bones At the hot precious globe of their what's to be At the hot precious globe of their what's to be Just a pair of beautiful bones, beautiful bones