The Elephant and the Arctic Tern

from My Skin Has Changed by Clementine

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It took one night with your eyes and skin across my chest
To turn my bones to molten glass, my skin to molten lead
I’d heard your voice a few times since and now my ears are keen
I've searched this whole damn forest since; I've upturned every tree
And this furnace fire ain’t goin’ out but you're nowhere to be seen

Mama said, “Baby boy guard your heart”
But I think that she’d love me if I got this armor off
She’d see me for who I really am she’d see I’d walked so far
Besides, what’s armor good for if with her my heart has gone?

I came down to the waterin’ hole to get myself a drink
It cost my weight in whiskey to know there’s nothin’ like your taste
I took a rest and thought real hard about every little thing
It could cost my life but mean the world to see her once again

And 44,000 miles ain’t far when you’re at the other end

But Mama said, “Baby boy don’t stray far,
But Daddy’s watching over you he knows you like a hawk
He knows every anxious way and ways that don’t belong
And every way within, oh, he listens like a song”

My blisters stack as blisters do, they’re mats beneath my toes
But they don’t hurt quite so bad the times I think of you
My name might mean nothing to you, it may just mean a word
But I’ll search this whole damn world to find, I've got to know for sure

I’ll search this whole world to find I’ve got to know for sure

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from My Skin Has Changed, released February 14, 2015

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Clementine is an ambient grunge pop band from Minneapolis, MN.

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