Carbon Dated Love

From Topanga to the sea
 You took a walk with me
 To be free
 To be free
 Halfway down the trail
 We were sprung from our jail
 I see a whale
 You fill your pail
 With the spirits of the bees
 And the heat above the trees
 And you love flowers
 You feel their powers
 And this old fern is my friend
 Our love will never end
 Carbon dated love
 Tragedies unfold
 My heart's made out of coal
 Carbon dated love
 And there's a fossil of a fern
 When we open up the earth
 Still glowing green
 Down in the seam
 And there's three hundred years of coal
 But it took so long to grow
 Black as pitch
 It flipped the switch
 And in the dungeon down below
 A forgotten miner's glove
 Waits its turn
 Just like the fern
 And this old fern is my friend
 Our love will never end
 Carbon dated love
 Tragedies unfold
 My heart's made out of coal
 Carbon dated love
 It started in the sun
 But when we were done
 The shade had taken hold
 Under cottonwood trees
 The wet canyon breeze
 Mud seeps through our clothes
 When we finally reached the shore
 There stood an open door
 Out in the foam
 Calling us home
 Finally feeling brave
 We stepped into the waves
 We jumped right through
 Just me and you
 And this old fern is my friend
 Our love will never end
 Carbon dated love
 Tragedies unfold
 My heart's made out of coal
 Carbon dated love
 Carbon dated love