I’ve been stripped to the waste
I’ve been lost in the race
I’ve been caught in the chase
I’ve been quick to erase
Floodwater waist, floodwater, floodwater (Yeah)

I'm sitting in a car somewhere the road doesn't matter
Scattered are the droplets on the window, that have gathered
It's lathered in a condescending condensation
Coalescing contemplation is a sadder scheme
Yeah, a sigh sinks its teeth into the shroud of liquid steam
Flattened fog is hiding green, screaming stagnant meaning
As I ponder through the scene, from the back seat
Yeah, I'm moving ever forward whilst imprisoned in this chrysalis
The coldest caterpillar revealing feelings of dissonance
At the end I'll sleep, no longer shaken by the vehicle that has stolen my dreams
It seems I'm woken by the turbulence of cracks in the road
And I’ve been coping by ignoring what my guts already know
With eyes closed, I force my perspective to soften
Divorced from the cause, I won’t wed the problem
A passenger, only passing through
I’m at an impasse, so I pass it to you
Yeah, I’m a passenger, only passing through
I’m at an impasse, so I pass it to you

I’ve been stripped to the waste
I’ve been lost in the race
I’ve been caught in the chase
I’ve been quick to erase

Floodwater waist high, I waste time
Trying to escape time, the days die
And I’m anxious, double down just to feel anchored
I drill through the core like a cancer

I am crude oil burning, I am crude oil burning
I accrue this debt, and the world keeps turning
I am the bodies in the abattoir, I am the bodies in the abattoir
When I craved that marrow of convenience
I was sucking on the bone like a rabid dog

Vision is a mirror, and this weather won't define me
In passing time, clouds resign to give the sun it's due
So too this day will pass me, I'll drift happily
But right now, this moment is reality
I’m moving ever forward whilst imprisoned in this chrysalis
The coldest caterpillar revealing feelings of distance
I’m determined to exist here
I kiss goodbye to the thought of non-acceptance
I listen to the wisdom in the stomach and intestines
I let my lungs fill with the flames of intention
And then I exhale that wasteful resentment
I don’t know if the storm will end
But this moment, and this car are neither enemy nor friend
The droplets running west on a car that’s speeding east
Know not their own direction, know not the nature of the beast

I’ve been stripped to the waste
I’ve been lost in the race
I’ve been caught in the chase
I’ve been quick to erase

Floodwater waist high, I waste time
Trying to escape time, the days die
And I’m anxious, double down just to feel anchored
I drill through the core like a cancer (quick to erase)