Mermaid

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Mermaids are a symbol of insight and awareness; also renewal and revitalization, rebirth.
Mermaid urges you to look beyond the constructs we've been living in and imagine new worlds.

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Well if I were a birdman
I guess I would just fly

But I am a mermaid
And all I do is dive

Grab hold of the seabed
Turn it on its head

Rolling water bombs
Buildings underground drown
Sharks are on the phone
Monsters of a past time
Crash against the waves
The wind is writing songs
Starfish light the night
Universes shine bright
Come into the world
Forget all that you know
Look into your mind's eye
Mermaids lived there long

If I were a centaur
I'd trot and stomp you down

And if I were a satyr
I'd drink my whole way out

If I were a vampire
I would forever suck

But I am a mermaid
And all I do is dive

Grab hold of the seabed
Turn it on its head

Rolling water bombs
Buildings underground drown
Sharks are on the phone
Monsters of a past time
Crash against the waves
The wind is writing songs
Starfish light the night
Universes shine bright
Come into the world
Forget all that you know
Look into your mind's eye
Mermaids lived there long

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released April 21, 2022

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