O Sparks Lyrics

Oh, Sparks

The frolic, the flare

But never beware

Tis but a skirmish, they say, with such splash

And drift, and whisking of wave

The light-speckled droplets as jolted water

Tossed nearly into a daze, a craze

And before glowing eyes, at once alighted

At once rent asunder

Though scared and scarred

Still sacred and ever so acutely alive

At once bittersweet and flecking

Into a curious and far-off reflection

A half-light so aware

So forgetful and worn

And twisted and crying out

And aching and screaming

And scratching and wriggling

And squeezing and wincing

And heaving and shifting and spinning

And turning and turning and turning

And then coasting along still, just soaring out

And floating on and loving more and more and more

Past that and dreaming none too quietly

And feeling this piercing light shine forth

Even fiercer and fiercer still

Beyond any and all of that

But beginning to shred at those seams all the same

So just holding out for the other side

So mightily, so magnificently

So bravely, so brashly

So daringly, so exhaustedly

At once so bright indeed

But to where then does it scurry forever

And ever and evermore beyond that was the pact

Then one fateful day

Too late and shall not be undone

A wish

Left with its dream

Its vision

And its mirage

Its sounding sent through

Of a daisy and her dragon

A destiny and its dance

Yet this one memory remains

Of rain, of earth, of sky

Of salt, of a dazzling pattern

And a unification therein

A sight to behold

At once lost completely

At once persevered through and through

And then all at once

This aged and bygone auteur

Discovers that the frostbitten brain

Is suddenly momentarily able to recall

What it felt like way down deep in the bone

To truly arrive at a sensation

Its purpose

Its energy

Its warmth

And the whole overall human experience

In that they imagined

The thing would always just be so

Organically and bracingly enmeshed

Within that one trademark

That acutely simple

Idea itself

So thank you

Oh sparks