I Spoke with a Fish

[Verse 1]
I told a fish, "What you see as a palace is running water"
The fish said, "No."
"What you see as those mountains is flowing matter"
I said, "Okay"

[Verse 2]
And after our talk I saw the wall of rock as a wave in the middle of breaking
A rock slide echoes across the gorge
My small perspective fading
And who am I but a blink of the eye?
A stance that a river would take
If it even wanted to pause

[Verse 3]
Recorded music is a statue of a waterfall
The flashing glint on the marble where the eye once was
On a taxidermied marlin's frozen leap
With or without me there to see
Rain begins to fall
Back into the creek

[Outro]
I told a fish, "I like how you move through the water as one flowing muscle"
The fish said, "I dig your style, too, man"