Where The Waters Call Home - Hostage Calm

Like grass through cracked cement

We move through spaces called

Difference and restriction

These lines in the sand

They divide the common land

My friend, if the world can’t fit in your hand

Maybe it’s the way that you’re squeezing

Trying to trap a man inside his skin

How can we know what oceans the waters call home?

And late at night do they swim there alone?

Come rescue the cold

Born under barricades

Raised high to dam us

You’ve built up these borders;

Can your fences contain

A tempered man’s refrain that

«Color and law are not what lives in a man’s heart»?

(And yet it sets us apart)

How can we know what oceans the waters call home?

And late at night do they swim there alone?

Come rescue the cold

Mother of Exiles, You’ve turned many away

Oh, warm waters won’t you rescue the cold?

Thaw the ice that hubris grows

And when you break through I hope that it holds

How can we know what oceans the waters call home?

And late at night do they swim there alone?