Mimicking Birds
Dust Layers
[Intro]

[Verse 1: Nate Lacy]
June traded me for October
Carried me through to the November winds
Caves in the ground, though we often slip
To look outside with squinting eyes
[Nate Lacy & Aaron Hanson]
I crawled underneath to live on
As time squeezed out both sides

[Verse 2: Nate Lacy]
You barely move to lift one of your fingers
Just clinch your fist and bend all of them (bend all of them)
[Nate Lacy & Aaron Hanson]
Aim towards the ground—you cannot miss—
Or aim high if that’s your bulls-eye
Every piece that’s found should not be mis-
Taken as one from your pie

[Pre-Chorus: Nate Lacy]
It’s cool how you are just you (Ooh, yeah!)
It’s nice how we can just hang on too (Yeah!)
It seems like we don’t lose our youth (Ooh!)
And I just can’t see you losing you

[Chorus: Nate Lacy]
Born of ice and salt, I’ll meet you back there, yeah
'Cause we are foreign travelers of many dimensions here or there
Dormant underground—like a windblown seed—it’s sewn
One millennium ends tomorrow: dust layers to clutter on the shelf

[Post-Chorus: Nate Lacy & Aaron Hanson]
So many layers of some strange blue; he saw layers of dust down to the core
It’s pretty unfortunate 'bout that—it’s only us, but we heard 'em—your precious words
A shitstorm mixed with the dust—but oh well—it’s just a fraction of what sinks to the floor
As the passing of time lines with the layers of dust, pieces of us
Born to cities of rust under the crust, add another layer of dust
I’ll take the ice and nebulas