Slack Water

What makes the seashell sound like the ocean? What makes the ocean sound like a shell? What makes the salt burn? What makes the tide turn? What made Isaac Newton interested at all? I find where I am through dead reackoning In the slack water I wait; like a rag doll I wait In the currents I'm ripped into shreds Into buttons and thread Into stuffing and fragments What puts the carriage in front of the horses? What puts the horses in front of the cart? Why does the mind race? Why does the heart break? How does the chase make tomorrow too late? I know where you are, hiding in the rocks Staring at nothing; weathering away In the slack water you wait; like a rag doll you wait In the currents you're ripped into shreds Into buttons and thread Into stuffing and fragments What holds you together What holds you apart In the slack water I wait... I wait