Continental Shelf (Variation)

The water's darker where the shelf drops off A thousand meters in a single step Below the light the pressure holds What the surface never kept You don't fall you just go deeper Past the point where names dissolve Something older than the ocean floor Was waiting here before you were born The current speaks in frequencies Too low for ears too wide for walls Your ribs become a resonator For a sound that has no source at all You don't fall you just go deeper Past the point where names dissolve Something older than the ocean floor Was waiting here before you were born At the edge of what you understand You stop understanding and begin Was waiting here Was waiting here before you were born