Blue Receipt Departure

(ahhhh) I walked right out the exit sign

Left the noise and the crowd behind

Now we stand in a dry concrete pool

Under fluorescent bulbs, quiet and cool

A blue receipt from the corner store

Flutters softly on the dusty floor (shhh)

And the water is gone

But the weight

remains

(rising up)

We are floating in the hollow deep

Holy light we tried to keep (oh-oh-oh)

Where the water

used to be

Set it free, set it free

The ink is fading on the paper slip

A twenty-dollar bills in your hand-tight grip

We didn't buy the water,

we just bought the time To wash away the worry and the

silent crime

(holy light)

Under the indoor lights In the dry

deep end