Atlantis

Your entire body shakes you when laugh
 As if your sense of humour was built on a fault line
 And the coast of your heart
 Falls into the ocean of yourself
 And I'm left looking for this Atlantis
 Left looking for this place
 That exists in the stories told by old men
 Who were there when mathematics assured them
 Their willingness to believe
 Was greater than their determination to dismiss
 I'm left looking for Atlantis
 Regardless of the scientist that insists
 My efforts would be better spent
 Unearthing clues to where the wild things went
 Try as it might
 Faith can't put a dent fact
 So we must settle for science re-enact the world
 As if the universe was curled around this globe
 And if we consider that the universe is never ending
 Then we're not even a microbe
 We're like a death threat from a pacifist
 We're nothing
 But the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that
 Nothing is fo' shizzle
 And the interesting thing about that
 Is that it ensures that the principle itself can't even be a fact
 But we still act as though
 This time we can see the forest through the trees
 Regardless of the soft wood lumber levies
 We fall in line like reforested pine
 It's all straight rows
 Were everything grows a little less wild
 A little more humdrum
 Ho, hum
 We come from the mentality
 That rarely sees the horror in symmetry
 Or the beauty in non-conformity
 We insist that for us
 Everything must be clear cut
 But what about philosophy?
 What about the tree that fell in the forest
 That no one was around to hear?
 It's a little less clear
 A little more deep
 Deep like
 If Oprah Winfrey farts in a bathtub
 And no bubbles come to the surface
 Is there an alternate universe
 Where the price of gas is cheap?
 Possible
 But we can't prove it
 Any more than we can prove
 That light can move fast enoug
 To stop a monster hiding in the closet
 We deposit our faith in fear
 But clear our minds to the possibility that
 Maybe we as adults
 Still get scared of the dark
 Things that go bump in the night
 And I can't prove that I've ever loved anyone
 But despite the smoking
 And the overweight body
 I want to grow old with you
 Go through muscle and joint pains
 To the point that every time it rains
 We can feel it in our knees
 Get arthritis so bad
 That every time we move
 We sound like two bowls of Rice Krispies
 We're all snap, crackle and pop
 But we still take the time to stop
 And take the time
 I'm looking for Atlantis
 Letting faith turn this fiction into fact
 As if I tracked this missing continent for decades
 And all I know so far
 Is that it is somewhere under water
 I'm looking for clues in the most blurry photos of UFOs
 And thinking
 If alien are so smart
 Than why don't they start making their spaceships look like airplanes?
 That way we'd just point to the sky and say
 An airplane, how common place and not at all suspect
 We're all shipwrecked on this idea
 That everything has to be explained
 But maybe we just need to believe
 That lemmings jump off cliffs to prove that they love us
 And sure
 That sacrifice is as empty as the box of condoms
 That politicians used when they thought they could f*ck us
 But it is nice to believe that somebody up there
 Cares enough to plummet onto jagged, back-breaking rocks
 In an attempt to tells us
 We're beautiful
 Tell us that as far as life goes
 Our finger prints are like snowflakes
 We leave them on everything
 But they melt in the time it takes to touch someone's tongue
 But if we're lucky
 Maybe we're rememered
 Along with the sunken cities of a lost continent
 This is for each child
 Who is a monument to the one's who came before
 Maybe the best we can hope for
 Is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing
 That we're born out of love
 And not science
 That biology explains the how
 Love explains the why
 So in the event of our deaths
 We hereby bequeath all of these words to you
 And they are only meant to say that
 Uncertainty is something everyone goes through
 And there is not much in the way of proof
 But believe me, we loved you
 We held our breaths for your first step
 Your first word
 We laughed when it finally occurred to you
 Lemons are sour
 This is for every time
 Love becomes the finest minute and the darkest hour
 This if for those who scour the streets
 Wondering where the wild things went
 For the believers who leant us their madness
 This is for everyone we miss
 And this is for the children who were lost
 Sadness is nothing more than the cost of being able to smile
 Once in a while
 And grief is the trial we stand to offer evidence
 That your finger prints were left on our hearts
 And our skin
 And in terms of proof
 Love can be demonstrated in giving
 Our lives consist of the efforts we give
 In swimming towards the lost continent
 Where you are rumoured to be living