utopia. Lyrics

It was beautiful in the city

The buildings were spires of copper and quartz glass

That shone like glitter in the sunlight

There was a sea made of diamonds

I could go whenever I wanted

All I had to do was close my eyes and I would find myself perched

On the highest tower with the wind whipping around me

Flying was as easy as breathing

I wore a different face there

There were only a few of us who lived in the city

But we would play games in the rainbow reflections

Turning ourselves into hard light and liquid mirrors

We would slip into each other and trade bodies back and forth

Until we couldn't remember which one we started with

We lived in peace until the day the city died

The copper melted and the glass was nothing but dust

The diamond turned to dry ice and sublimated in the heat

Until it was gone altogether

The others wouldn't tell me what had happened

We moved on

What else could we do

We found a new ocean, and built a house on the cliff above it

We hid

We stopped playing games

Sometimes we hated each other

I don't know if they forgot

Or if they couldn't let themselves remember

But we never spoke of our city again.

Sometimes I look out my window

Across our saltwater sea

And I swear I see copper glinting in the sunset

I swear the sea is diamond