Andrea Gibson - Jellyfish lyrics

When the astronaut told me she needed more space I dropped my pants in the floor of the grocery store Hoping I could moon her into staying. Most of us will do anything to try and prove we are enough. To prove our shine is no hollywood Our stars are not just actors To prove the twinkle in our eye Isn't an infection. I can look in any direction and say "that's the way to go", But I've learned this is how to stay. Skipping moonrocks across my own puddle dive Even when I've been clipped from the mothership So I can still say I bet you smell like bu*terfly. But I bet you dream cocoon And I bet you never say the word ‘f**' But we all know you do My heart is a runway I've been staring at this sky since my love took off Will you be my friend? Will you poem me a porchswing? Will you punch me in the tough, just once? I'm ready to reset my bones Ready to swingset my ribcage So the next time somebody pushes me away I'll swing right back to that chisel with my marble spine Go ahead, build me Do you ever think about God's ears? Wonder if the levy broke her promise? Wonder if the wrecking ball was trying to run its fingers Soft across the bricks But its head was just too heavy? Before you become my friend Picnic with my rubble Road trip with everyone I left in the dust Do the laundry from the last time I was loaded How she found my trigger and we woke With the sheets pulled above our heads Praying the mortician could make us pretty Y'all, none of us are pretty. But our ugly has an alibi And our gorgeous has a sand collection Or two harmonicas we keep blowing off For that flute we carve from our wrists Put your lips here Tell me there is music in my blood Then tell me there is more in my light Hang me chandelier from the last night I believed this life had to hurt so much I am done kneeling in the church of steepled smokestacks Done stargazing my own train crash Give me wind sprints Tell me my fingerprints are the shape of ripples on a frozen lake Tell me my coal mind will never collapse on my heart I'll tell you these poems They are my birthmarks And I came this close to having them removed once Even kept that voice-box cutter hidden in my shoe the day that flight took off But the runway It's made of marble Made of gust Made of windmill Made of salt And there is a sea of hope-chest in every word I speak Praying to be open by the night With its belly full yield Pull the shield from my wingspan Teach me why the candle wax says thank you to the flame Tell me how your mother says your name like an orchard going bloom A doctor once told me I feel too much I said so does god That's why you can see the grand canyon from the moon We are a telescope, a riverbed We are empty lockets melting into gold We are hearts breaking bread Fold me in your napkin poem Pull the tinsel from my hair from all the pasts I cannot let go My gills are adjusting to the air The story husk peeled from my bones My bones know the song of our tears Dripping from the faucet Tick-ticking like a metronome I know there is better music Even in this cabin full of fever Tonight I'm catching nothing but the lightning bug My body is a mason jar Transparent as a jellyfish I wish for a heart you can see straight through For a voice that glows in the dark And a few really good friends to skip moon rocks to.