SHELLS
[verse 1] So many sessions with the speech therapist And still no one understands the language of my heart Say conchology The fleeing mermaid is nothing but a shadow of happiness The one sought by the young woman who was sentenced Like the fifty sisters to a sad union The mind hesitating between the drowning of tears and abandon [chorus] Oh oh how long will I be waiting again to hear her voice I’m alone more from despair than choice I know the chant of love can only be heard By those whom mermaids had turned up the heart My net catch nothing but those empty shells No pearl in their belly it’s absurd that lack of chance How long will I be waiting to hear the captivating chant? Command the end. [command the end please command the end of my loneliness] Command. [verse 2] And the sky is so vast oh dear and so far so out of my reach, Or is there in the invisible some kind of breach? Does he only hear when a heart speaks of shells? Or when a shell speaks of hearts under a ...